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November 4, 2015
TCG Culture Lauded Once Again
Remember in September how TCG was awarded a Corporate Culture Award? It’s happened again! Today TCG is recognized by Entrepreneur.com’s inaugural Top Company Cultures list, a comprehensive ranking of U.S.-based businesses exhibiting high-performance cultures. We are ranked 12 on the list. Thank you to…
January 13, 2020
Can Machine Learning Solve Your Problem?
By Robert Buccigrossi, TCG CTO
Machine learning (ML) is all over the news. It can beat humans at Go, but has caused a backlash grading Utah students’ essays. So what problems can we effectively solve by an ML system right now? Here…
April 7, 2007
Excellence.Gov interviews now available online
I mentioned a while ago that the top 5 2007 Excellence.Gov Awards winners would be interviewed on FederalNewsRadio. Those interviews are now available online, here. The interviewees were:
Melvin Brown, Knowledge Services Network Program Manager Federal Aviation Administration
Ginger Price, My HealtheVet…
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…
April 20, 2016
Potomac River Watershed Cleanup at Snakeden Branch
At the weekend, TCG lent a hand with Reston Association for the Earth Day initiative Potomac Watershed Clean Up 2016. TCGers and their families and friends volunteered to pick up an amazing total of 159 bags of trash from all across…
November 1, 2018
Creating A Happy Remote Workplace
by Daniel Turner
TCG was built on the idea that telecommuting is more productive and leads to happier employees than a typical office-set workforce. However, building a remote workforce that keeps employees happy is fraught with challenges. In August’s edition of the…
April 2, 2009
Buying COTS grants management systems, and aligning with GMLOB
A couple of years ago I made some presentations at the NGMA Conference, and posted them here via Slideshare. That system tells me that the presentations are getting a lot of views lately. As it’s clearly of interest again, I thought it might…
March 24, 2009
Grants.gov gets new leadership
Grants.gov has a new program manager to guide it through the challenges of servicing the Recovery Act. Phillip Clark, a member of the HHS Office of the Chief Information Officer, will be Acting Program Manager as Eben Trevino moves to become Senior…
March 18, 2008
Big Dog: $10m of your money put to good use
Big Dog is a quadruped robot developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). This thing can traverse rough territory while carrying significant payloads, which could be very useful in situations such as battle, health…
August 31, 2007
Wanna be President? Sign an Oath of Transparency!
GovExec reports that three Presidential hopefuls have signed an oath pledging to support FedSpending.gov (FFATA), should they win office next year. The Oath of Presidential Transparency is being led by the Reason Foundation and Sens. Barack Obama, D‑Ill., and Sam…