Category: Saving the Taxpayer Money
October 14, 2011
NITRC Now Acccepting Externally-Issued Identity Credentials in Advance of Government Directive
NITRC–the Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse–recently promoted code to allow for externally-issued identity credentials one week before Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel instructed federal agency CIOs to begin accepting non-government, externally-issued identity credentials. The ability to link a Google…
October 13, 2011
NGMA Issues Call for Journal Articles
The National Grants Management Association (NGMA) Editorial Review Committee has issued a call for articles for upcoming issues of its bi-annual Journal of the National Grants Management Association.
The peer-reviewed NGMA Journal publishes articles dealing with specific grants management issues that…
October 12, 2011
TCG Is #36 on 2011 WBJ 50 Fastest Growing Companies List
TCG has been ranked in position 36 on the Washington Business Journal list of the 50 Fastest Growing Companies in the Washington, DC region for 2011. This is TCG’s first time on the list, which is based on consecutive growth…
TCG’s Brian Ibbison Featured in Federal Computer Week Rising Star Profile
Brian Ibbison, who is a technical and project lead with TCG, has been featured in a Rising Star Award profile in Federal Computer Week. Brian’s receipt of this award represents the third year in a row that a TCG team member has been recognized…
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…
NGMA Announces Monthly Training Luncheon and Webcast Series Schedule
The National Grants Management Association (NGMA) has announced its monthly training series schedule for 2011–2012. The series will have 8 sessions running from October through June and registration is now open. Here is the full schedule:
10/19/11 Grants 101: Featuring Stephen…
Holding Meetings for Fun and Productivity!
How many times have you said (or, depending on your place in the pecking order, thought), “Let’s end this meeting so we can get to work!”
You may be thinking about meetings wrong. Meetings aren’t a distraction from our jobs. For…
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…
September 20, 2011
Reverse Project Estimation
TCG has a big goal we have been working towards for a number of years now. The plan is to save American taxpayers ONE BILLION DOLLARS by 2016. One of the ways we save government money is by suggesting and using existing…
August 3, 2011
FDP Fall General Meeting Registration Now Open
The Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP), which is an association of federal agencies, academic research institutions, and research policy organizations that works to streamline the administration of federally sponsored research has announced that registration for the FDP Fall General Meeting, September…