Recent Event Highlights: Oil spill could cost BP close to $63 billion - NDTV.com, BP oil spill GOM doomsday collapse of sea floor and toxic tsunami if BOP fails, News Digest - Federal Times, EPA is First Agency Heard on Spending Data Quality - OMB Watch, Event: Community Health Data Initiative Launched (06/02/2010), Vivek Kundra Keynote at the Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop, and 47 more...
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DOJ involvement in whistleblower case turns up heat on OracleComputerworld... the Defense Department, spent $189 million on Oracle products in 2009, and $197 million in 2008, according to data on the USAspending.gov Web site. ...and more »
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The Truth Hurts Scientists question voice-based lie detectionScience NewsAnd according to USAspending.gov, the National Institute for Truth Verification, maker of the Computer Voice Stress Analyzer, has received more than $1.6 ...
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Oil spill could cost BP close to $63 billionNDTV.comBP sold $1.6 billion worth of aviation fuel and other products to the military last year, according to the government's procurement site, usaspending.gov. ...and more »
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www.FreedomizerRadio.com MorningMayan BP oil spill GOM doomsday collapse of sea floor and toxic tsunami if BOP fails Daniel Gross of Slate poses the question How do we punish BP? The options he suggests - boycotting BP products, charging for the cleanup, even nationalizing the company - are less than satisfying. Here's another possibility: How about barring BP from the federal trough? According to USASpending.gov, BP has received more than $9 billion in defense contracts since 2000. Contracts with Veterans Affairs, Transportation, Commerce and other federal agencies total additional millions. Pro Publica reports that the Environmental Protection Agency is considering a ban on BP getting government contracts: Over the past 10 years, BP has paid tens of millions of dollars in fines and been implicated in four separate instances of criminal misconduct that could have prompted this far more serious action. Until now, the company's executives and their lawyers have fended off such a penalty by promising that BP would change its ways. That strategy may no longer work. The EPA issued a statement saying it could issue a ban after reviewing "the frequency and pattern of the incidents, corporate attitude both before and after the incidents, changes in policies, procedures, and practices." A total ban would not only cancel company contracts, but would prevent BP from drilling on federal land, including offshore sites. The EPA had already been in talks with BP before the spill in the ...
State's checkbook to go online, but lawmakers are asking, 'Why stop there?'The Connecticut MirrorIn other states, non-profits have taken on the task - including New York and Maine. The federal government lists its expenditures at USASpending.gov.and more »
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News DigestFederal TimesBP has received about $1 billion per year in federal contracts since fiscal 2005, according to the website USAspending.gov. That's a tiny slice of its ...
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BP disaster: should the US Department of Defense honor a 9 billion dollar ...Gather.comFor full page of BP contracts see: USASpending.gov. Not that I actually believe a revocation of contracts would help BP to be more effective and efficient ...
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EPA is First Agency Heard on Spending Data QualityOMB WatchThe Zeints memo also requires specific plans to address spending information submitted for inclusion on USAspending.gov and evaluation of information on ...
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The Community Health Data Initiative is launched in a Forum at the Institute of Medicine, Washington, DC - June 2, 2010. Under the initiative, HHS health data will be made freely available so that software developers can create innovative applications and make the data more useful for consumers and communities. At the event, Secretary Sebelius explains the initiative, and early developers demonstrated their new applications. See more at the HHS OpenGov website. www.hhs.gov We accept comments according to our comment policy newmedia.hhs.gov US Department of Health & Human Services www.hhs.gov
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra's keynote at the Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop May 20, 2010. Kundra describes the gap between consumers access to IT and the government. He calls for cloud computing to narrow this gap while maintaining security, data portability and interoperability.Kundra calls industry and government to work together to accelerate cloud adoption by focusing on standards and helping agencies leverage the certification work done by other agencies.
TreehuggerTop Five Federal Agencies Awarding Contracts To BPTreehuggerData and graphics are from USASpending.gov. Has the Pentagon had any say in how the Gulf of BP incident has been managed? Inquiring oysters want to know. ...
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Think government design is hopeless? Think again. Introducing the winners of Design for America -- a 10 week contest sponsored by the Sunlight Foundation. We charged creative citizens from across the country to put on their redesign caps and imagine a new way of presenting government information.The results are incredible. We received 72 entries of visualizations, websites, infographics, and more that demonstrated that data doesn't have to be boring. In fact, data can be beautiful, compelling, funny, and brilliantly intuitive. These traits are particularly highlighted by our 10 winners. You can see their work for yourself and learn more about Design for America by clicking here: sunlightlabs.com Congratulations to our winners! Best Redesign of a Government Website: A Good Company - IRS.gov Redesign Best Illustration of How a Bill Becomes a Law: Mike Wirth & Dr. Suzanne Cooper Guasco - How Our Laws Are Made Best Illustration of the Legislative Process: Mark S. Luckie - US Senate Floor Procedures Best Visualization of Community Health Data: Forum One - County Sin Rankings Best Use of Sunlight Data: Nick Jonas - Cool Kids at the White House -and- Matt McKenna - WhoPaidThem Best Use of USASpending.gov Data: Clay Broga - Is Washington Bankrupting America? -and- Pitch Interactive - Government Spending v. Media Coverage Best Use of Recovery.gov Data: Iowa State U., Dept. of Statistics - Making a Full Recovery Best Redesign of a Government Form: Davvi - US Passport Application ...
Gov 2.0: NASA Readies Mission-Oriented Cloud ComputingInformationWeekThe redesigned USAspending.gov site recently became one of the first government-wide Web sites to run on the Nebula cloud. Next, NASA plans to make Nebula ...and more »
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Gov 2.0: Government Design Winners AnnouncedInformationWeekA graphic called the US Federal Spending Compared to Media Coverage of Each Agency won the award for Best Visualization of USAspending.gov Data. ...and more »
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...down even further, showing the top 10 federal spending contracts for the state in fiscal year 2009. Version 2.0 of USASpending.gov also has new information-sharing features that allow people to share feeds, exports, and analysis results via RSS. For people...
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week ends with remarkable news in the federal contract transparency world.
First, the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
announced that a new and improved version of USAspending.gov will be
released this year. I had the privilege of beta
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Remarks by The President at Opening Session of the Forum on Modernizing Government
President Obama welcomes more than 40 ceos to the White House to open the White House Forum on Modernizing Government. January 14, 2010.
Florida still low in per-capita stimulus fundsBradenton Herald... using recipient-reported data on the www.recovery.gov government Web site and grants and loans reported by agencies on www.usaspending.gov. ...
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In the fifth annual mcgowan Forum on Communication, Technology and Government, experts discuss the transfomative effect of Web 2.0 on the relationship between citizen and government. The panel, moderated by Darrell M. West, vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, discusses how collaborative democracy can be designed. Panelists include Beth Simone Noveck, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Mark H. Webbink, visiting professor of law, New York Law School, and executive director, Center for Patent Innovations; Gigi B. Sohn, president and co-founder, Public Knowledge; and Jason R. Baron, director of litigation, National Archives. For more on the National Archives, please visit www.archives.gov or check out our youtube Channel at http
In the fifth annual McGowan Forum on Communication, Technology and Government, experts discuss the transfomative effect of Web 2.0 on the relationship between citizen and government. The panel, moderated by Darrell M. West, vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, discusses how collaborative democracy can be designed. Panelists include Beth Simone Noveck, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Mark H. Webbink, visiting professor of law, New York Law School, and executive director, Center for Patent Innovations; Gigi B. Sohn, president and co-founder, Public Knowledge; and Jason R. Baron, director of litigation, National Archives. For more on the National Archives, please visit www.archives.gov or check out our YouTube Channel at http
Intelligent Enterprise Top Blog Posts of 2009Intelligent Enterprise (blog)Serious Design Failure at USAspending.gov It was hailed as ushering in a new era of open government, but Seth Grimes uncovered plenty of data-analysis and ...and more »
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Taylor Co. small business loans total $10.3MAbilene Reporter-News* This loan is still listed on the federal government's spending Web site, USAspending.gov, but it was declined. ...
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L-3 says uniquely placed for Afghan surge gainsReuters8 supplier in fiscal 2008, with $5.7 billion in prime contracts, according to www.usaspending.gov, a federal bean-counting website. ...and more »
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Chopra, Kundra Urge Efficiency Role For Government ITInformationWeek... or the General Services Administration's Smart Buy program and by integrating government contracting data from disparate databases into USASpending.gov. ...and more »
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Agencies to justify not using cloud computing to OMBFederalNewsRadio.comKemp says NASA will launch several pilots in 2010 using Nebula, including hosting version 2 of USASpending.gov. Kemp says he is unsure when OMB will "flip ...and more »
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Data.gov Heads For OverhaulInformationWeekStructured data from a number of other government data Web sites like USAspending.gov and FBO.gov will be integrated into Data.gov.and more »
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The Magna Carta for Government Transparency?Project on Government Oversight... internal controls over, the Federal spending information publicly disseminated through such public venues as USAspending.gov or other similar websites. ...
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Open Government Directive Highlights Federal Spending TransparencyOMB WatchDesign "a framework for the quality of Federal spending information publicly disseminated through such public venues as USAspending.gov or other similar ...'Transparency like you've never seen before'Foster's Daily DemocratOpen government initiative puts agencies on the clockFederalNewsRadio.comGame changer: Open Government Directive puts new onus on agenciesGCN.comall 318 news articles »
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Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra take your questions on the new Open Government Directive and the move to a more transparent government. December 8, 2009. (Public Domain)
White House works for electronic opennessSDTimes.comThe Obama administration, McLaughlin said, has built sites like data.gov and usaspending.gov, which both offer information to the public in machine-readable ...
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"Rock Your Baby" is a popular song by George McCrae. Written and produced by Harry Wayne Casey and Richard Finch of KC and the Sunshine Band, "Rock Your Baby" was one of the landmark recordings of early disco music. A massive international hit, the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the USA, spending two weeks at the top in July 1974, number one on the R&B singles chart, . and repeating the feat on the UK singles chart, spending three weeks at the top of the chart in July 1974. In total it sold over 11 million copies internationally. Here The reggae version by " The Cimarons " The Cimarons formed at a Harlesden methodist youth club in 1967. They initially worked as a backing band for visiting Jamaican singers, eventually being invited to tour Africa in the same capacity
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...of Recovery Act funds. Further, there are problems matching contractors within Recovery.gov with those listed in USAspending.gov. The top contractor listed on Recovery.gov (SANOFI PASTEUR INC.) uses a separate DUNS number than a similarly named company listed...
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...Consider as examples of Government BI three public-data systems: the U.S. Census Bureau's American FactFinder Website; USAspending.gov , a showcase transparency effort; and Gapminder, which provides visualizations of world-development progress. These BI systems...
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Internet Evolution
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This video was made by www.youtube.com Subscribe to his channel. Additional keywords sarah palin john mccain education economy bush friedman hayek ludwig von mises institute immigration health care supreme court bailout bail out war ondrugs religion oil revolution free state project...
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A BAD REVIEW FOR USASPENDING.GOV: “The U.S. federal government’s USAspending.gov Web site is a travesty, almost a parody of a government-transparency site. The site looks fine, but it significantly fails U.S. government accessibility requirements, and
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...another step towards data transparency, the US government provides the IT dashboard via USAspending.gov: The IT Dashboard provides the public with an online window into the details of Federal information technology investments and provides users with the ability...
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Flowing Data
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Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra answers your questions from Facebook and the White House website about all things technology, information, and transparency. June 30, 2009. See: it.usaspending.gov (Public Domain) ... "White House" Obama tech technology IT CIO usaspending.gov "IT Dashboard"
the new federal CIO website with extra web 2.0 bling.
the new federal CIO website with extra web 2.0 bling.
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...and it looks like the development team will accept public advice on how to expand the site. It would be important for USASpending.gov to include data about federal spending that's not restricted to information technology. That's going to be countless more...
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...federal government has launched a new Web site, USASpending.gov, to track the government’s information technology spending. Vivek Kundra, chief information officer for the federal government, announced the new tool at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York...
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IT Dashboard - What does launching a new agency (DHS) look like in IT spending information? This screencast demonstrates how to use the visual analysis tools of USASpending.gov's IT Dashboard. This website provides the public a new window into the US Federal IT Investments Portfolio, and can be found at it.usaspending.gov. ... omb egov gov government 2.0 transparency it dashboard tutorial visualization motion chart treemap screencast white house
walkthrough will give you a brief introduction to the data and power of this website so that you can get started with the Federal IT Portfolio today. This screencast demonstrates how to use the analysis tools of USASpending.gov's IT Dashboard. This website provides the public a new window into the US Federal IT Investments Portfolio, and can be found at it.usaspending.gov. ... omb egov gov government 2.0 transparency it dashboard tutorial visualization motion chart treemap screencast white house ...
IT Dashboard - Use the treemap tool to explore the distribution of Health IT investments across the federal government. This screencast demonstrates how to use the analysis tools of USASpending.gov's IT Dashboard. This website provides the public a new window into the US Federal IT Investments Portfolio, and can be found at it.usaspending.gov. ... omb egov gov government 2.0 transparency it dashboard tutorial visualization motion chart treemap screencast white house ...
IT Dashboard - Has more IT spending been going to new systems and upgrades, or to maintenance of existing systems? This screencast demonstrates how to use the analysis tools of USASpending.gov's IT Dashboard. This website provides the public a new window into the US Federal IT Investments Portfolio, and can be found at it.usaspending.gov. ... omb egov gov government 2.0 transparency it dashboard tutorial visualization motion chart treemap screencast white house
IT Dashboard - Have any agencies had significant changes in their mix of Infrastructure versus Mission Area IT spending? This screencast demonstrates how to use the analysis tools of USASpending.gov's IT Dashboard. This website provides the public a new window into the US Federal IT Investments Portfolio, and can be found at it.usaspending.gov. ... omb egov gov government 2.0 transparency it dashboard tutorial visualization motion chart treemap screencast white house ...
IT Dashboard - Is less of Health and Human Services IT infrastructure reported as upgrades than previously? This screencast demonstrates how to use the analysis tools of USASpending.gov's IT Dashboard. This website provides the public a new window into the US Federal IT Investments Portfolio, and can be found at it.usaspending.gov. ... omb egov gov government 2.0 transparency it dashboard tutorial visualization motion chart treemap screencast white house
American's want change and voted for Obama so now they got the change they wanted. Are they happy with the change? Is this the change that we wanted..really? The only way to change this now is impeachment..So much spending on a socialistic life style..but we were a FREE nation..what happened..we don't want to be Free anymore?..So much for streets of gold for all those who wished to come here! I personally want my FREEDOM back!! Take responsibility for YOURSELF! Stop expecting the BIG Government to do everything for YOU!! You wanted CHANGE well..now you got it..are you happy now?? Who knows were this will led or when it will stop...2012! God Bless the USA!!
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