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August 21, 2012
NGMA Training Series Begins With a Bang
NGMA presents GAO, the agency that has had as much of an effect on grants management as any organization but Congress itself.
August 7, 2012
Four Years in a Row: Lisa Alferieff is TCG’s Latest Rising Star Award Winner!
Hats off to TCG Chief Operating Officer Lisa Alferieff who has been selected by Federal Computer Week as a 2012 Rising Star award winner! The Rising Star award program recognizes top public and private sector employees who have made an early—and…
July 30, 2012
NIH Awards CIO-SP3 SB Prime Contract to TCG
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Technology Assessment and Acquisition Center (NITAAC) has awarded TCG a 10-year contract with a ceiling of $20 billion to provide health IT and other IT-related support services under its Chief Information Officer-Solutions & Partners 3 Small Business (CIO-SP3…
July 28, 2012
Senator Coburn: “Fraud, Waste, and Stupidity” in Grants Management
$687 billion in unspent grant money is sitting in accounts all around the country -- Senate committee wants to find out why.
July 20, 2012
Oracle Nightmare: Recovery With Missing Redo Files
Here’s a mistake you only do once: delete Oracle’s flash_recovery_area thinking that you can save space. You see, to quickly configure Oracle Backups (here is a great and brief how-to), it’s best to turn on “archivelog”, which instructs Oracle to create transaction…
July 13, 2012
GAO Report Dumps Grants Overlaps in Wrong Lap
The GAO Report released this week that looked at overlap in Department of Justice grants programs found an alarming number of overlapping programs and, not surprisingly, grants applications that repeated the same language for programs at different DOJ agencies.
“DOJ…
July 11, 2012
Tech Conference Videos Online
Like many older generation software developers, i.e. the set of programmers over 29, I have a lot of commitments that I can’t put on hold for days at a time. In my professional life, I have my standard work hours. Then I usually have one…
July 10, 2012
First Certified Grants Management Professionals
Grants management is getting more complicated with every new funding bill that passes Congress or in state legislatures, and with every new grants program created in federal, state, and local governments and in private foundations. Perhaps once grants could be…
June 28, 2012
TCG’s Tchad Moore Recognized by AFCEA Bethesda
TCG’s Tchad Moore has been recognized by the Bethesda Chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA Bethesda) for his contributions in helping set a fundraising record for the group’s annual gala to benefit The Children’s Inn at the…
June 22, 2012
TCG is a SmartCEO 2012 GovStar Award Finalist
TCG has been named a finalist for the 2012 GovStar Awards. TCG is a finalist in the Small Business Star Performer category, which recognizes government contractors that have experienced significant growth. The awards are sponsored by SmartCEO magazine.
The GovStar Awards program…