September 9, 2008

Grants.gov seeks cloud computing solution

Grants.gov is seeking information from companies capable of providing a “cloud computing” solution to support its needs, as this sources sought notice shows: The core business of Grants.gov is: forms (development with business rules, testing, and deployment); the data residing…

TCG to Support Transformation of DOJ COPS Business Processes

We just posted this news at TCG.com regarding some Lean Six Sigma efforts ongoing at DOJ COPS.…
September 5, 2008

Job: Business Consultant/Architect

We just posted a new job opening to the TCG web site, here, for a Business Consultant/Architect. If you’ve got system analysis, business analysis, and architecture experience, take a look!…

NGP September 16th agenda/registration now available

Click here to see the agenda for the NGP’s September 16th meeting and webcast. Registration details are also on this page. Topics up for discussion include: Transition and Reauthorization of PL 106–107 Transparency Act & Subaward Pilot Update The Partnership for…
September 4, 2008

FederalArchitect.com: A blog for government EA types

Shahid Shah, a great friend of TCG’s who founded Netspective, has started a new blog aimed at the federal enterprise, system, and solutions architecture community. The Federal Architect aims to create discussion and collaboration among architects working in the federal government. Based…

Grants.gov starts new blog

It looks like good ideas spread! Grants.gov has started its own blog all about grants management. Check it out here.…
August 22, 2008

The Amazing Power of Spamhaus.org

Recently, we turned on block-list spam protection provided by the zen.spamhaus.org in addition to regular DNS-based restrictions. Thanks to Zimbra’s graphing capabilities we have a powerful visual depiction of the power of Spamhaus: This graph displays the number of messages processed…
August 21, 2008

Achieve Zen About Spam with Zimbra

This past Monday the amount of spam hitting our Zimbra mail server (5.0.5) spiked to twice the usual amount, causing our sever to fall 15 minutes behind in delivery.  While we were doing pretty well with spam blocking through Pyzor…

TCG is on the 2008 Inc. 5000

Inc. magazine announced the Inc. 5000 today, the list of the fastest-growing companies in the USofA. We’re delighted that TCG is number 1,716 on the list! (Number 1 would be better but all good things come to those who work hard…)…
August 4, 2008

New legislation calls for federal grants web site

As reported over at GovExec, one part of Senator Voinovich’s new legislation is to develop a web site where grantees can track their grant applications. Clearly this is an attempt to expand the scope of Grants.gov (which was originally intended to…