Nearly eight years ago, Bill Beach, director of The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis, and I invited Gary Bass of OMB Watch over for a chat about the possibility of our two organizations ...

Much of what the U.S. government does comes down to money — namely, how money gets spent through federal contracts, grants and other awards. One place where you can track the details of this type of ...

The Government Accountability Office has both kind words and some constructive criticism for governmentwide spending data website USASpending.gov. The government watchdog released a new report Dec. 13 ...

Central government spending data repository USASpending.gov now curates access to an additional kind of budget data — Congressional Budget Justifications. And transparency advocates say it’s a step in ...

The work-in-progress known as government transparency took a new twist on April 1 when the Treasury Department unveiled “improvements” to the USAspending.gov website aimed at providing easy public ...

Luke Fretwell is the founder of GovFresh as well as an adviser for civic and government-focused businesses. Rightfully so, there’s somewhat of a backlash to the newly re-designed USAspending.gov that ...

The Obama administration is committed to transparency, at least in theory. To track the mountains of cash we’re spending on contracts, wars, programs, initiatives, and stimulus packages, the ...

The government procured its own spending transparency website and the primary data system behind it on the same day last month the contract to manage the systems was set to expire, new documents show.

Launched in December 2007, USASpending.gov was meant as a way of tapping modern technology to hand the American public the means to track what the federal government spends. But a new report from the ...

The U.S. government launched USASpending.gov, a Web site to track billions of dollars in government information technology spending. It’s an official effort to be more accountable. The U.S. government ...