July 9, 2013

TCG’s Dan Turner Featured in SmartCEO Magazine

TCG president Dan Turner is featured in the Federally Speaking column of the July issue of the Washington, DC edition of SmartCEO magazine. The Federally Speaking column, written by Rebecca Kirkman, focuses on government contractors in the Washington, DC metropolitan area,…
November 11, 2008

Lines of Business: OMB’s Mistakes and How It Can Fix Them

Here is the fundamental challenge: Each new grant program passed by Congress creates a tiny new fiefdom in a government agency. This fiefdom directly gets funding and has the ability in many cases to set up its own management processes and systems.…
September 10, 2007

Government heads for Second Life

Just picked up this post from Bob Brewin from GovExec. That’s the goal of key staffers at the Information Resources Management College at the National Defense University, which has a formed a multiagency consortium to establish a sizeable federal presence in the Second…
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…
November 24, 2008

Getting Sabrent SATA Host Cards to Work

To support a large number of hard drives on our backup machine, we bought a Sabrent SATA 4 port PCI host card (SBT-SRD4).  Guess what?  It hangs with our 1TB drives.  In fact, it will hang with anything larger than 175 GB! Instead of…
October 12, 2021

5 Ways Small and Midsize Businesses Can Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

A recent study by Pew Research found that 80% of citizens in advanced economies are willing to make changes to the way they live and work to fight climate change. This is great news! As a B Corp and a company committed to…
October 9, 2009

TCG Ranked #25 on Washington Business Journal List of Small Technology Companies

TCG has been recognized by Washington Business Journal as one of the Top 25 Small Technology Companies in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.  TCG came in at #25. The list, which is based on rankings by 2008 metro-area revenue and…
June 3, 2011

Give a Hoot — Don’t Commute!

Our company purpose is to “Save Time.“This is best embodied by our animosity towards daily commutes. The concept is a terrible one — it leads to communities where people don’t know each other, where businesses fail even though they’re surrounded by…
July 7, 2009

GSA funds new Grants.gov pilot

According to this posting on FedBizOpps, GSA is giving Symplicity Corporation some funds “to acquire a pilot that will facilitate the need to support the efforts of the Recovery Act of 2009 and rebuild and possible deployment (sic) of a working pilot…
November 30, 2007

Next NGP Meeting: Monday 12/3/07

The next NGP meeting is on Monday. I can’t attend (TCG’s annual planning meeting odyssey starts Sunday) but that should only encourage you to go yourself! The new NGP white paper, “The Need for Federal Grants Management Standards,” will be formally…