April 20, 2017

What is Solid State?

If you’re in the market for a new computer, chances are you’ve came across a laptop or desktop with a specification such as “128GB SSD” or “500GB SSHD.” Let’s discuss what these specifications mean. Solid state technology has been present since the 1950s.…
April 11, 2017

White Paper: Drowning in Data — The Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) and its Potential Effects on Government Contracting

It started as a steady drip. In the late 1990s that drip became a steady pour. Today, the government is doing all it can to contain the flood. Data has become ubiquitous to everything we do. Twenty years ago the government was…
December 15, 2016

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…
December 7, 2016

A Case for Embracing Shared Services

Keeping track of an $81.5 billion IT portfolio across 26 agencies with staff spread throughout the nation and, in some cases, overseas, is hairy, to say the least. There are bound to be duplication of efforts, systems, and software. For…
August 30, 2016

6 Reasons Why We Think TCG is the Coolest Company in DC

This election season we have a tough decision to make. However, we hope your vote for the Coolest Company in DC is an easy one! TCG is a finalist in the Coolest Company in DC race and we need your vote to…
August 18, 2016

The company you keep

Mama always warned us to pick our friends carefully because we would be judged by the company we keep. And now we find ourselves in great company yet again, as Inc. magazine has ranked us on its prestigious Inc. 5000…
August 8, 2016

TCG on Path to Transcendence

Named to WBJ top “Small Technology Companies” for seventh time For the seventh time, TCG is ranked on the Washington Business Journal’s list of DC’s top “Small Technology Companies,” coming in at number 18. Over the years we’ve gratefully won…
July 25, 2016

Positively Distinct: We present at International Security Architecture Conferences

by Lynette Hornung, Senior Privacy and Security Architect Manager  In Fall 2015, I was invited to speak at COSAC, an international enterprise security architecture conference attended by a diverse group of IT security professionals working in a variety of industries. Presentations are interactive and…
July 18, 2016

TCG Named Great Place to Work

Need for additional trophy cases becomes apparent; interior designer despairs TCG has been certified as a great place to work, adding yet another recognition to the growing list of awards we have accrued. The certification is based on an independent analysis…
July 14, 2016

TCG’s Data Sharing Initiative Used To Challenge Validity of 40,000 fMRI Studies

by Nina Preuss, Program Manager, Health Sciences  TCG was contracted by the NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research to design, implement, and maintain the Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) in 2006. Since then, we’ve been at the bleeding edge of…