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 ...

After years of policy delays, regulatory reviews and technology overhauls, the public now can finally view data on subcontractors and subgrantees on USASpending.gov. Previously, spending data were ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

USASpending.gov has made a solid effort to increase transparency in how the federal government handles taxpayer money each year, but when comparing the data on the website to agency records, 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 ...

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 ...