December 7, 2016

A Case for Embracing Shared Services

Keeping track of an $81.5 billion IT portfolio across 26 agencies with staff spread throughout the nation and, in some cases, overseas, is hairy, to say the least. There are bound to be duplication of efforts, systems, and software. For…
March 24, 2022

Our Social and Environmental Impact: TCG’s 2021 Annual Benefit Report

TCG became a Certified Benefit Corporation in 2019. The certification uses standards from B Lab to rigorously assess TCG’s social and environmental impact, accountability and transparency, giving us a way to evaluate the actual impact we’re having. In turn, this allows us to…
January 29, 2008

Grants.gov now REQUIRES Adobe Reader 8.1.1

This is a very important announcement regarding compatibility of various versions of Adobe Reader with Grants.gov. Please take note!  Important Software Version Announcement: Adobe Reader 8.1.1 Required When applying with Adobe Reader applications on Grants.gov, it is now required to download Adobe…
June 22, 2016

Charity Sprees make TCG Positively Distinct

by Denise Neal, Assistant to the VP of Sales & Team  A Positively Distinct benefit of working for TCG is Charity Sprees. Instead of needing to convince my employer to allow the employees to volunteer our time together as a company, it is…
March 28, 2012

GAO to FEMA: Make Sure Grants Programs Do Not Overlap

The GAO can't tell whether four of FEMA's grants programs overlap, because FEMA doesn't collect enough information on recipients.
April 14, 2009

NITRC projects wins Excellence.Gov Award!

I have some very exciting news: One of our projects has won the overall, top 2009 Excellence.Gov Award! The NIH’s Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) project was recognized for its achievements in helping researchers collaborate to develop even…
March 24, 2009

Standardize the clouds!

…Or at least that’s what we should do if cloud computing is to gain broad adoption, according to experts who spoke at the Strategies and Technologies for Cloud Computing Interoperability meeting this week (Washington Technology report). My observations of this…
April 13, 2021

Why it Pays to Invest in Employee Happiness

Of late, the U.S. workforce has experienced a series of events that has assuredly impacted morale and, therefore, productivity. Some companies may regard investments in employee wellbeing as an unnecessary expense. TCG regards investments for employees as investments in the wellbeing…
February 14, 2012

TCG Customer Named Federal 100 Award Winner

Christopher Friedline, program manager for the Department of the Treasury/Bureau of the Public Debt Budget Formulation and Exectuion Manager (BFEM) program, has been named a 2012 Fed 100 awards winner. The awards, which are sponsored by Federal Computer Week, recognize 100…
May 9, 2008

Git – Fast Version Control System

Git is an open source version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency, but just as well suited for small personal repositories; it is especially popular in the open source community, serving as a development platform…