Author: Pete Sinnott
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 12th 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…
November 1, 2018
Creating A Happy Remote Workplace
by Daniel Turner
TCG was built on the idea that telecommuting is more productive and leads to happier employees than a typical office-set workforce. However, building a remote workforce that keeps employees happy is fraught with challenges. In August’s edition of the…
October 4, 2018
Putting Families First, TCG and Other Business Leaders Launch the Businesses Advancing National Paid Leave Website
A longtime advocate of universal paid leave legislation, TCG President Daniel Turner is proud to join with the National Partnership for Women & Families and other business leaders in launching the Businesses Advancing National Paid Leave website, www.advancingpaidleave.org. This new website…
June 27, 2018
Hear, Hear! TCGer Cherrie Reid Graduates from the ACT-IAC Voyagers Program
Congratulations are in order for Cherrie Reid, Project Manager at TCG and Program Chair of the ACT-IAC Emerging Technology Community of Interest. Recently, Cherrie graduated from the ACT-IAC Voyagers Program, a leadership development program for rising leaders in government and industry.…
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 the…
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 on…