December 18, 2017

Shared Services that Streamline Government Processes

Built from a shared service, as a shared service, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Budget Formulation and Execution Manager (BFEM.gov) supports the strategic planning, formulation, and performance management of the federal budget. Initially designed as a tool for the Treasury to collect information…
May 7, 2012

DATA Act Sets Taxpayers Against Grants Recipients

H.R. 2146 provides no money to grantees and contractors for the reporting they will be required to do.
December 12, 2023

DevOps and Automated Deployments for Confluence

Applying DevOps principles to projects based on customized Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) products can feel really hard sometimes. Honestly, the same can be said for a lot of Open Source projects as well.  It’s not that the software is bad…
October 3, 2005

What not to say in proposals — a quick list

What Not To Say In Proposals is a good resource for review prior to submitting a proposal. Since proposals are the final chapter in closing professional services and development projects, it never hurts to get advice and reminders of what might make…
May 13, 2011

LAMHDI Team Exhibiting at Immunology 2011 Conference

TCG’s LAMHDI Team will be exhibiting at Immunology 2011, the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists in San Francisco starting May 14th. TCG built and is maintaining LAMHDI for the National Center for Research Resources under contract…
July 6, 2005

New Blog, New Corporate Blogging Policy

At company meetings and email discussions, we realized that we had many opinions and ideas that we simply kept to ourselves.  Therefore, TCG has decided to open a corporate blog so that we could share our thoughts on our areas of…
March 21, 2019

Infographic: Helping Senior Executives File Their Financial Disclosures

Among the checks and balances of our democracy is the vetting process that senior leaders in the Federal Government undergo. Every appointee is carefully vetted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), and sometimes the Office…
January 10, 2006

TCG’s David G. Cassidy Appointed to Thompson Federal Grants Management Handbook Advisory Board

This press release was just issued, about yours truly.  I just finished my first column for the newsletter, which will appear in February. Washington, DC, January 10, 2006: TCG announced today that David G. Cassidy, Vice President of the company, has…
September 14, 2006

Grants Policy Committee Open Webcast information

Back in July, I posted that the Grants Policy Committee was organizing an open webcast. Details about that event are now available:  DATES: The Committee will hold an open stakeholder meeting and Webcast on Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 11 a.m. to…
August 3, 2007

FFATA needs subaward pilot help

I got this from the NGP a few days ago and just now have time to post it here. If anyone’s interested in helping think through subaward reporting for FATA, contact Tyson Whitney or Barbara Dorf.…