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December 20, 2012
TCG’s Tchad Moore Named NITAAC Contract Communications CAG Co-chair
TCG business development executive Tchad Moore has been selected as co-chair of the Communications Community Action Group (CAG) for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Technology Assessment and Acquisition Center (NITAAC). NITAAC operates several government-wide acquisition contracts, including CIO-SP3 Unrestricted,…
April 25, 2007
Havekost is Austria-bound
I think this ranks among one of the less-expected stories of the week!
Charles Havekost announced Monday that he will be leaving his position as chief information officer at the Department of Health and Human Services in mid-June and moving with…
March 8, 2012
Debuging Dynamic JavaScript
I have always been a fan of integrated debuggers. They really help me think about tricky bits of code and verify that my solution is correct. While testing my code I like to use a debugger to watch all my variables and boolean…
March 18, 2012
Too Clever?
In many weakly-typed languages, such as Javascript and PHP, you might find code that takes some ambiguous value and coerces it into a straightforward boolean like so:
$boolean = (boolean) $mixed;
But what about this radically shorter alternative?
$boolean = !!$mixed;…
December 19, 2019
A Review of Successful Applications of Machine Learning in Government Tech
Over the past several months the TCG R&D lab has been investigating how federal agencies can successfully utilize artificial intelligence (AI), and more specifically machine learning to meet their mission objectives. Machine learning can be described, in layman’s terms, as…
October 24, 2007
NGP seeking Grants.gov improvement suggestions
Just saw this on the NGP mailing list:
This is a follow up to an earlier request and comment from the recent NGP Webcast to provide your suggested enhancements for Grants.gov FIND. We are on a short deadline and would like to…
April 3, 2007
GSA, OPM delay HR business line solicitation, awards
While the Financial Management Line of Business (FMLOB) looks like it’s making great strides, the Human Resources Line of Business is taking a step back, reports FCW, as it intends to revisit an RFP in light of industry’s mountain of questions.…
July 16, 2013
BHAG Update: TCG Nears Halfway Point toward Goal of Saving U.S. Taxpayers $1 Billion
TCG is nearing the halfway point of its big hairy audacious goal (BHAG) to save U.S. taxpayers $1 billion by 2016. So far TCG has saved the government in excess of $429 million by automating once-costly processes, using time-saving and…
December 1, 2005
Backing up in real-time
I just purchased some new software: NTI’s Shadow 2. It’s pretty neat — makes an instant copy (to any mounted drive or directory) of any file that changes on your windows box. It even keeps past revisions of files, so…
July 26, 2006
New contracts for government services?
GovExec reported yesterday on a recommendation that GSA create a new type of contract for services acquisitions, arguing that existing contracts are geared more towards buying goods. This will create a whole lot of change in government IT contracting, if it goes ahead,…