Topic: Earl Devaney

Recovery Board chairman to step down

Earl Devaney, the chairman of the board set up to oversee more than $800 billion in federal economic stimulus efforts under the 2009 Recovery Act ...

Software helps government track recovery funds

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Inexpensive software and technology used mainly by intelligence agencies and law enforcement have helped limit fraud linked with $840 billion in federal recovery funds, a senior U.S. official said.Earl Devaney, the former Interior Department inspector general whose probe ...
Matt Blunt of Missourior Bobby Jindal of Louisiana whostarted making government expenditure available on the Internet, but is it really thesame transparency that we came to know under the Obama?s administration. states government is precisely theis attempting to debate that transparency ...

4 steps toward better collaboration in government

Effective change requires a major shift toward collaborative thinking. Mark Forman is leader of the Federal Performance and Technology Advisory Services Practice at KPMG. This article represents the views of the author only and does not necessarily represent the views or professional ...
Proposed policy would require a unique identifier in a standardized format for each procurement. The Civilian Agency Acquisition and the Defense Acquisition Regulations councils have proposed standardizing the use of unique procurement instrument identifiers (PIID) throughout the government and giving agencies policies ...
The board overseeing Recovery Act money ran into an old problem: All 28 agencies that receive funds under the law organized and tracked their awards differently using their own coding systems, Earl Devaney, chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, told ...

Recovery Web site moved to cloud

Oversight board expects $750,000 savings this year from moving stimulus tracking Web site to commercial cloud platform. Security also will be enhanced through greater protection against network attacks and real-time detection of system tampering, the board said, describing the security as ...

Recovery.gov site has new page to fix problems

Recovery oversight board aims to improve data quality for stimulus spending. "This change, perhaps our most important, should vastly improve the quality of recipient data," said Earl Devaney, the board's chairman. "This mistake caused us no end of headaches and confusion ...

Recovery site hosts bad data, GAO says

The Obama administration's project to track all spending under the $787 billion economic stimulus law has data quality problems, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.. The reports describe projects funded by, and jobs created from, the $47 ...
A year ago, with the markets and the economy in meltdown, the SmartMoney Power 30 was full of the usual cast of government giants and Wall Street heavyweights: She has been an outspoken critic of the industry, pushed for more authority to ...