Robert Brodsky at Government Executive reports: “[T]he rich are getting richer. During the past five months, 17 of the largest government contractors have won more than $1.6 billion in Recovery Act contracts—more than all small businesses combined.”
His analysis shows that 17 companies among the top 100 recipients of government contracts in fiscal 2008 won more [...]
The “Cash for Clunkers” program got popular fast. That shouldn’t be a surprise, of course. It’s a program that gives away money to buy cars.
Congress hears you, America, and the House of Representatives just moved to top up the tank on that program. It passed a bill this afternoon to spend another $2 billion on [...]
A company called Smartronix will get $18,000,000 to redesign Recovery.gov, the federal Web site intended to track where federal Recovery Act spending goes.
The government purchased technology for a similar site (with a somewhat smaller scope), USASpending.gov, from the non-profit group OMB Watch for only $600,000. A private company already provides information on Recovery Act [...]
Yesterday, the administration issued a document called “Recovery Report: 100 Days 100 Projects“:
In the first 100 days since President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law, we have obligated more than $112 billion, created more than 150,000 jobs and helped communities and tribes in every state and territory. But recovery is more [...]
The Washington Post had an interesting article late last week about how hard it is for the federal government to follow the money it is spending under the Recovery Act, even though transparency and accountability were heavily doubted during debate on and passage of the bill.
Enter Onvia, a company that supplies nationwide information about opportunities [...]
This morning the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform had a hearing entitled “The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: The Role of State and Local Governments.”
We’re just delighted to see that one of the witnesses, David Robinson, Associate Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University, has cited WashingtonWatch.com [...]