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…
August 2, 2018

Supporting STEM Education for Girls and Minorities

After announcing the annual theme at the 2018 All-hands Meeting, TCGers kicked off our first activities to support STEM education for girls and minorities. The first activity TCGers participated in at the All-hands Meeting was creating Makey Makey inventions with…
April 17, 2018

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…
April 10, 2018

Communities for Sharing, Learning, and Growing

By Michael Drescher The American Council for Technology (ACT) and Industry Advisory Council (IAC), also known as ACT-IAC, is a non-profit public-private partnership dedicated to improving government through the application of information technology. ACT-IAC provides a forum where government and industry exchange information…
April 3, 2018

Lessons Learned From A Data Center Meltdown

By Al Crowley, Senior Software Engineer at TCG Recently a TCG project, the Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC), suffered a week-long outage. It was painful, nerve-wracking, and frustrating for everyone involved. NITRC is hosted in a large third-party academic data center…
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…
July 5, 2016

Music On Hold: An Alternative to Opus Number One

by Lisa Alferieff, Chief Operating Officer  Who says you need to listen to Kenny G or Barry Manilow when placed on hold? Not us. I started at TCG in 2009 working on a software development project for the Department of the Treasury. Our…