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June 2, 2007
Use Firefox keyword searches to speed browsing
Via the wonderful Lifehacker, I discovered a feature of Firefox that I can’t believe I didn’t know about before. You can create keywords for search boxes on pretty much any Web page and then, when you invoke the keyword in the Firefox address bar,…
September 30, 2009
TCG Receives 2009 Inc. 5000 Award
We’re pleased to announce that TCG President Dan Turner officially accepted TCG’s 2009 Inc. 5000 award from Inc. magazine at the Inc. 500|5000 Black-tie Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony on Friday, September 25, 2009 at the Gaylord National Convention and…
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,…
May 4, 2010
Knowledge management in the cloud exists in government right now
Quoting speakers at the recent Knowledge Management Conference, an article at FCW.com says that…
“The combination of knowledge management and a cloud computing environment is the likely catalyst for open government”
and…
“the questions are: Who owns information in the cloud and…
May 18, 2011
LAMHDI Exhibits at Immunology 2011
TCG’s LAMHDI Team–Judith Turner, Matt Travers, and Haig Evans-Kavaldjian–manned an exhibit at Immunology 2011, the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists in San Francisco, May 14th-17th. The conference, which is the largest annual immunology meeting worldwide, featured…
July 21, 2006
Grants Policy Committee Open Stakeholders Webcast
Bizarre title for a meeting, I agree, but welcome all the same because it means that the Grants Policy Committee has organized itself to hold an open forum meeting to which all-comers are welcome. Holding open, come-as-ye-are grants policies meetings has been…
November 29, 2018
TCGers Lend Their Helping [Coding] Hands to a Local Nonprofit
By day, TCGers develop complex applications and web tools that helps government address socio-economic issues and serve communities nationwide. By night (and sometimes on the weekends), TCGers basically do the same thing. For the past several months, a group of TCGers…
December 27, 2011
Identifying Grants Fraud an Updated Old-fashioned Way
Recovery.gov has been touting its ability to identify waste and fraud in Recovery Act grants, and other grantmaking efforts are taking note. But the most successful methods are also the old-fashioned ones (albeit updated with technology).
The outgoing head of…
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…
February 23, 2010
Tom Cooley joining Deloitte
I thought others would be interested to learn that Tom Cooley, former CFO of the National Science Foundation, chair of the Grants Policy Committee, and mover-‘n’-shaker in grants management in general, is set to join Deloitte & Touché. More information is…