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August 31, 2011
TCG Ranked on Inc. 5000 for Fourth Year in a Row
TCG has been recognized by Inc. magazine as one of the fastest growing companies in the United States for the fourth year in a row. The company was also on the Inc. 5000 in 2010, 2009, 2008, and the Inc. 500…
August 24, 2011
LAMHDI Annual Planning Meeting Focuses on Expansion
LAMHDI, the NIH initiative to Link Animal Models to Human Disease, held its annual planning meeting last week (August 15–17) in Bethesda. Attended by scientists and researchers from nine cooperating institutions and several federal agencies, the meeting focused on ways…
August 22, 2011
TCG’s Brian Ibbison is a 2011 Rising Star Award Winner
At TCG, we’re incredibly proud of the high quality of our people and the work they do. And we get great shivers of joy when others recognize just how much our staff contribute to the government. That’s why we’re so…
August 18, 2011
Estimation Is a Loser’s Game
How many times a day do you estimate the time and effort required to complete a project? I bet it is a lot more than you think. Did you recently adjust your alarm clock? Before you did that I expect that you, perhaps subconsciously, did…
August 16, 2011
Fight Mail Bounce Spam with a Catch-all Address
If you send an email to a non-existant address, most mail servers are polite and will send you your message back with a notice that it couldn’t be delivered (called a mail “bounce”). Alas, this service can be hijacked to send spam. How?…
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…
August 2, 2011
OMB Seeks Comments
In the July 28, 2011 Federal Register, OMB requested comments on the renewal of the SF-425, Federal Financial Report. They are particularly interested in comments on how the SF-425 and SF-426A are an improvement over the data collections they replaced…
July 27, 2011
ACT-IAC releases results of grants management survey
ACT-IAC’s Collaboration & Transformation SIG recently released a white paper titled “Industry Survey of Challenges to Improve Federal Grants Management”. The group surveyed industry participants to identify opportunities for improvement of the Federal grants management process and associated systems. The conclusions are…
July 26, 2011
FDP Posts Draft Agenda for September Meeting
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 posted a draft agenda for the FDP’s September 2011 meeting on…
July 24, 2011
A rose by any other name…
Over the last couple days I’ve read a few article linked on Hacker News about the “real name” problem on social web sites. I first heard other people talking about this a few years ago when Twitter was taking off. A lot of ‘famous’…