Topic: Transparency Board

Agencies' unique coding systems hinder Recovery Act oversight, official says

Federal Computer Week - 562 days ago
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 ...

Errors on Recovery.gov Creates Fodder for Critics

IT Business Edge - 821 days ago
Criticism over the reporting on the Recovery. The Dallas Morning News reports that the Web site lists more than 400 "phantom" districts across the United States. Such errors raise questions about the quality of data and validity of claims about the number ...

Lack of Stimulus Job Info Draws Critics

IT Business Edge - 848 days ago
With the announcement earlier this month that the federal stimulus package created or saved 30,000 jobs, there is still no word on how many of those jobs were IT and engineering jobs. Computerworld reports that that lack of information is a ...

Revamped Recovery.gov Site Unveiled

IT Business Edge - 872 days ago
The Chicago Tribune reports that the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board has unveiled a revamped Recovery. gov site.

Auditor warns: Some stimulus waste is inevitable

AP News - 1066 days ago
Chief auditor overseeing spending of $787 billion in stimulus funds says some waste inevitableThe chief auditor overseeing the spending of the $787 billion in stimulus funds is warning that some waste or fraud is regrettably inevitable.In prepared testimony before the House ...

Review The "Emergency" Economic Stimulus Bill

About.com - 1117 days ago
See the final bill passed by Congress. Note that Congress is calling this an "emergency" bill to get around pay-as-you-go restrictions. Congress is also allocating $247.5 million to three groups to oversee the spending. One is new, the Accountability and Transparency ...