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September 26, 2012
TCG’s Lisa Alferieff Profiled in Federal Computer Week
Federal Computer Week has posted a profile of TCG Chief Operating Officer Lisa Alferieff in recognition of her being named a recipient of FCW’s 2012 Rising Star award.
The
Rising Star award program recognizes top public and private sector
employees who have…
May 6, 2015
Integrity.gov Launches, Shining Light Where Once There Was Dark
TCG helps to build the flashlight.
On January 1st, the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) launched Integrity, a web-based database designed to track executive-level government personnel financial information. TCG has worked on Integrity since its inception, providing user experience design, requirements…
July 29, 2021
Filling a Gap in Federal DevSecOps
Keeping your entire organization focused on security with one data visualization tool.
As shown by recent security breaches such as the Solarwinds hack and the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, effectively managing security vulnerabilities is important and difficult. But…
July 6, 2005
NasBackup and the amazing Butch
TCG has a bunch of staff spread across the country. This presents a number of technical challenges for data security and corporate data integrity. We’ve put in place measures such as our VPN, which has created an internal “LAN” that’s proving very…
June 12, 2007
Inconsiderate FBO system design gets my goat
This really shouldn’t bother me as much as it does but check this out:
This is a screenshot from FedBizOpps after a user registers interest in an opportunity. Yeah, let me just click on that “X” at the top most right hand corner.……
January 30, 2012
My Southwest Flight Hit a Light Pole, but They Really Impressed Me…
My wife and I happened to be on today’s flight #792 from Los Angeles to Denver that hit a light pole. (Since we were taxiing, most of us had our phones turned on, and were able to get some pictures…)
We had…
October 5, 2006
Complete this survey!
Are you a grantee? Use a grants system? You should complete this survey. (Full disclosure: I’m the Co-Chair of this committee!)
If you haven’t already responded to the National Grants Partnership survey regarding the use of standards in grants management and administration,…
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…
August 14, 2018
Ready or Not, Here it Comes: Prepare for Technology Business Management
What is TBM?
IT supports most aspects of a modern organization’s performance but it’s historically been difficult to correlate IT investments to business outcomes. Technology Business Management (TBM) is a way to address that challenge. TBM is an expense and budgeting framework and…
September 25, 2019
Who says Shared Services are Only for Back Office Functions?
by Dave Cassidy, Vice President
The consensus answer is: almost everyone. The problem is that almost everyone is wrong.
By eliminating duplicative work and saving taxpayer’s money, federal shared services can have a huge impact on modernizing IT in the federal government.…