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April 25, 2019
What’s the Process for Creating Federal IT Policy?
Managing more than $80 billion of IT investments across 26 agencies is no small feat. Using sophisticated tools such as ITDashboard.gov, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) works with agencies to collect vast amounts of data and uses…
April 22, 2019
TCGers Plant Seeds to Reap Future STEMers
Spring is in the air! Beneath our feet, microbes called streptomyces release chemicals as they awaken and warm up. Pollen germination is activating and hydrating and pollen tube emergence has started.
And, obviously, it’s also FAIR season!
Last year, TCGers…
March 21, 2019
Infographic: Helping Senior Executives File Their Financial Disclosures
Among the checks and balances of our democracy is the vetting process that senior leaders in the Federal Government undergo. Every appointee is carefully vetted by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI), and sometimes the Office…
March 14, 2019
GSA Touts Shared Services as the Next Wave of IT Modernization
As reported by MeriTalk, GSA Director Emily Murphy spoke yesterday to the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, and much of what she said focused on the potential for shared services to modernize federal IT and…
January 30, 2019
A TBM Maturity Model for Federal Agencies
It has only been two budget cycles since the Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer (OFCIO) at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) changed the IT budgeting process to be based on Technology Business Management (TBM)…
January 22, 2019
Divide and Serve — TCGers Volunteer Their Time to Serve Organizations Across the DC Metro Area
The Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday reminds us of the importance of serving the community and lending a hand where we can. Over the holiday weekend, TCG had two Charity Sprees in flight — one at the Maryland Science Bowl and…
January 16, 2019
5 Ways Contractors Can Manage a Government Shutdown
800,000: that’s how many Federal workers are currently subject to the government shutdown. It’s often identified as a quarter of the federal employee workforce. According to some estimates, there are 3.7m contractors. A quarter of that is 925,000 — as many as…
November 29, 2018
TCGers Lend Their Helping [Coding] Hands to a Local Nonprofit
By day, TCGers develop complex applications and web tools that helps government address socio-economic issues and serve communities nationwide. By night (and sometimes on the weekends), TCGers basically do the same thing. For the past several months, a group of TCGers…
November 8, 2018
TCG Takes to the Streets at the “Out of Darkness Walk” with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States. For every suicide death, there have been 25 attempts. Around 45,000 people commit suicide each year — roughly 123 suicides a day. With these alarming statistics, it’s no wonder…
November 6, 2018
The Shared Services Management Model
At 25 years old, we tend to think we know everything in the universe. While our younger selves might have been mistaken, TCG’s 25 years of supporting multiple federal shared services have certainly taught us a thing or two. The Shared…