This Was Not Your Average Day at Work

Each June we hold our Annual All-hands Meeting. It’s the one time of year that all of us come together to learn about the status and future of the company, the latest news on our projects, internal developments, and to…

TCG Veep Helps Plot the Future of Federal Shared Services

WASHINGTON, DC: TCG Vice President Dave G. Cassidy has been appointed as co-lead of an American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC) working group that will explore new business functions that may benefit from a federal shared service. Federal…

A New Path Forward

For more than 15 years, TCG’s mission was to “Save Time.”  This mission dictated our responsibility to everyone we encountered, including our clients, taxpayers, colleagues, communities, and families. It inspired our award-winning telework policy and our continually-improving software engineering and quality management initiatives.  But by the…

NITRC Has a New Face

For the past six months, the NITRC.org development team at TCG has been working on a new user interface design for the collaboration site. The NITRC site was first launched in 2007 and has not been redesigned since 2009. You can…

Shared Services Maximize Federal Grants for Discovery Science

The Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) is one of TCG’s longest-running projects and is among the most fruitful government shared services. What started as a small project to create a way for the federally funded neuroscience community to share their…

Using Data for Positive Change

When personal computers were first introduced, people demanded easy-to-understand user interfaces and software that would explain what it does and help them use it more effectively. The answer from many programmers was, “It’s hard to make it easy.” The same…

Information Sharing as a Key to Efficiency

By Chelsea Dicus Information sharing is good! Or maybe it’s bad? Perhaps, like everything, it depends on the situation and can have some murky areas. One example is open source technology, which TCG incorporates into most of our projects. We…