Category: Budget and Performance Management
May 15, 2023
Best Practices for Implementing PPBE Tools and Platforms
Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) processes in the Federal government are markedly different from the corporate performance management processes (CPM), which are standard in the private sector. Agencies’ varied organizational structures, reporting obligations, and legal requirements create unique challenges…
August 13, 2020
Managing Cloud Spending is a Challenge; Here Are Some Ways Agencies Can Improve
By Daniel Proctor, TCG Data Analyst
Over the last ten years, spending on cloud services has increased across federal agencies. In 2010, OMB made cloud computing an essential part of government’s plan to modernize IT and IT management, and early…
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…
October 13, 2015
BFELoB 2015 Fall Forum open for registration
We use a lot of the MAX.gov tools in our work for clients across government and believe many more companies and agencies would do the same if they knew more about the tools! Fortunately, the Budget Formulation and Execution Line of Business…
September 26, 2014
TCG Has No Brakes, Speeds Toward Certain Growth
As if being ranked on both the Inc. 5000 and the Washington Business Journal’s list of the Top Small Technology Companies weren’t enough, TCG has just been named as one of the Greater Washington Area’s Fastest Growing Companies by the Washington…
April 16, 2014
MAX.gov Reaches 100,000 Users
MAX.gov is a system very close to TCG’s heart, and we’re thrilled that the Budget Formulation and Execution Line of Business (BFELoB) Program Management Office, which oversees MAX.gov, announced that 100,000 users are now using the system. MAX.gov, which was launched…
February 14, 2014
COFAR Answers Frequently Asked Questions
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July 16, 2013
BHAG Update: TCG Nears Halfway Point toward Goal of Saving U.S. Taxpayers $1 Billion
TCG is nearing the halfway point of its big hairy audacious goal (BHAG) to save U.S. taxpayers $1 billion by 2016. So far TCG has saved the government in excess of $429 million by automating once-costly processes, using time-saving and…
April 9, 2013
OMB Recognized as 2013 Computerworld Honors Laureate
IDG’s Computerworld Honors Program has announced that the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) MAX Federal Community has been named a 2013 Laureate. The annual award program honors visionary applications of information technology that promote positive social, economic and educational change.…
October 25, 2012
Can responding to data calls be any more difficult?
The AABPA has just announced that registration is open for their next free webcast, “MAX Collect: Can responding to Data Calls be any more difficult?”, from 1pm-2pm on October 31st. You can register for this event right here. MAX Collect…