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April 1, 2014
TCG is Officially a Great Place to Work!
TCG, a leading government technology strategy and IT advisor, has been named by the Washington Business Journal as one of the Best Places to Work in Greater Washington. The awards, which are divided into small, medium, and large size business categories,…
January 23, 2006
Grants.gov featured in The Post
Northrop Grumman’s contract as systems integrator for Grants.gov is featured in an article about the HHS system in today’s Washington Post. The growth in use of Grants.gov is mentioned, as is the 75%-of-all-grant-opportunities target for FY2006.…
February 12, 2010
Global Warming Can Cause Snow!
Watching the evening news, I saw yet another person ponder the unusually cold weather and claim “I thought global warming was supposed to be a bigger deal…”. Here’s the fun fact: global warming causes amazing new patterns of snow and heat, consistent…
July 25, 2005
Forecastfox
I started using Forecastfox some time ago and absolutely love it. It’s a little Firefox extension that shows the current and forecast weather conditions wherever you wish in the browser. Until the latest version, the weather data came from Weather.com but…
November 8, 2018
TCG Takes to the Streets at the “Out of Darkness Walk” with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Suicide is the 12th leading cause of death in the United States. For every suicide death, there have been 25 attempts. Around 45,000 people commit suicide each year — roughly 123 suicides a day. With these alarming statistics, it’s no wonder…
November 26, 2008
Next NGMA Meeting — January 14th
Just a note for your calendars: The next NGMA Training Luncheon is on January 14th. The speaker is to-be-announced but an interesting chat accompanied by great food (Maggiano’s, 5333 Wisconsin Ave NW) is hard to turn down. And you can also…
November 21, 2005
Grants.gov Find and Apply merger — now December 19
Just received an e‑mail about this from Grants.gov. Highlights below:
Grants.gov is pleased to announce the new date for its Find and Apply merge will occur on December 19th. This marks another important accomplishment for Grants.gov
initiative. On this date,…
November 9, 2021
Will We Make the Sprint? Simulate it with Monte Carlo!
by Dr. Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
Piquing My Interest – When I read the title “How to replace estimations and guesses with a Monte Carlo simulation”, I got really excited: Of course I would love to learn how to avoid project estimation! While the article…
March 24, 2009
FDP posts draft agenda for May meeting
The FDP has now posted the draft agenda for their May meeting, which includes a panel on how to manage and administer ARRA funds, as well as the usual federal agency updates. I won’t be at this meeting, even though Newport Beach,…
June 1, 2007
NIH seeking grants IT people
NIH has posted several government payscale GS-15 (senior level, effectively) job openings in the area that builds and operates their grants management system, eRA. Here are the links to the postings:
Chief, Operations Branch
Chief, Customer Relations Branch
Chief, Design…