Federal CIO Launches IT Spending Site Built For Sharing

To promote greater government transparency and public access to information, US CIO Vivek Kundra has launched a new Web site for tracking spending on government IT projects.
By Thomas Claburn InformationWeek
July 1, 2009 02:05 PM

At the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City on Tuesday, the federal government's recently appointed CIO Vivek Kundra announced the launch of USAspending.gov, a federal IT spending Web site that allows anyone to track federal IT contracting dollars and grants.

The site was developed to comply with the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006, a law that requires public organizations to disclose receipt of federal funds.

As a senator, Barack Obama was one of the sponsors of the bill; as President, he has continued to support the principle of greater government transparency, with some notable exceptions like White House visitor records.

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