October 23, 2009

GPC, GEB to merge?

Tom Cooley, chair of the Grants Policy Committee, spoke at the NGP meeting on Tuesday (webcast available here) and mentioned that there is some discussion of the GPC and Grants Executive Board merging. I think this would be an excellent…
February 1, 2013

OMB to Host Webinar about Proposed New Federal Grants Regulations

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) will host an informational webinar with members of the grants community on February 8, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. regarding OMB’s proposed grants reform initiative. No advance registration will be required for the webinar,…
October 5, 2011

Telework Exchange Announces Fall 2011 Town Hall Meeting

The Telework Exchange–a public-private partnership focused on eliminating telework gridlock–has announced that its Fall 2011 Town Hall Meeting, Take IT Home, will be held Tuesday, October 18, from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade…
May 31, 2012

ORCID Proposes Unique Identifiers For Scientific Authors

Uniquely identifying  people in an electronic database can be a very hard problem.  I ran into this problem on my first project with TCG and it has come up a number of times since then.  Given a large enough sample size, you can find…
May 9, 2008

Git – Fast Version Control System

Git is an open source version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency, but just as well suited for small personal repositories; it is especially popular in the open source community, serving as a development platform…
March 24, 2009

Standardize the clouds!

…Or at least that’s what we should do if cloud computing is to gain broad adoption, according to experts who spoke at the Strategies and Technologies for Cloud Computing Interoperability meeting this week (Washington Technology report). My observations of this…
September 6, 2006

Good history of US federal government IT contracting

Over 95% of TCG’s work is with US federal government agencies. Washington Technology has just published a history of US government contracting that provides a pretty good background of the marketplace and how it’s changed over the last 20 years. Here are…
September 1, 2005

CMMI FAQ

TCG’s Senior CMMI Level 2 Mentor, Maureen Sullivan, just published a great article on www.tcg.com: What is CMMI Level 2 … and How Do We Get There?: A Brief Guide to CMMI Level 2 for Small Software Development Organizations. The article is intended to…
June 22, 2015

Nine out of Ten Employees Agree: TCG is the Bee’s Knees!

Tenth Employee says, “Just kidding! TCG is great!” Adding to its already considerable legend, TCG has been named a Washington Post “Top Workplace!” TCG finished as the number one advisory services or technology firm on the small business list, and number four…
September 27, 2011

Introducing the E‑mail Charter

TCG’s mission is to save time and if you’re like me, trying to keep up with the onslaught of e‑mail certainly does not help save time. An article in Sunday’s Washington Post highlighted this growing problem and introduced the e‑mail…