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And now this heartwarmer from The Weekly Standard:
"PORKBUSTING BLOGGERS AND muckraking journalists received an early Christmas present on December 13, when the White House Office of Management and Budget launched USAspending.gov, an Internet search engine that makes information about federal contracts, grants, earmarks, and loans exceeding $25,000 just a few mouse clicks away."
Some of you may have noticed that Government Inc. is an early adopter (I know, that sounds so 1990s) of the data system. It appears to work amazingly well.
How about this modest proposal to start 2008: Perhaps you dear readers could noodle a bit with the new database and send any discoveries to Government Inc.
I'm thinking about any patterns, amazing contractors, companies coming out of the blue (perhaps with ties to government agencies or former government employees). You get the point. Think of yourselves as sunshine (as in the Brandeis quote, "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants") that helps illuminate how the government works.
You never know.
By Robert O'Harrow |
January 3, 2008; 7:00 AM ET
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Posted by: JerseyBoy | January 3, 2008 9:10 AM
I agree with JerseyBoy. Also, I poked around that site, and it is highly inaccurate. I checked on a few companies I know of or have worked for, and there is much missing and/or bad information contained on that site. Use that as a resource at your own peril. The gov't needs to work out a few of the kinks on it.
Posted by: WJS | January 4, 2008 5:05 PM
I do believe WJS is correct, otherwise an interesting trend jumped out right away. Raytheon earned $9,429,326,619 in FY 2007 - thus far in FY 2008, Raytheon has yet to break the top 100 mark. Error or otherwise?
Posted by: Edwin Constant | January 5, 2008 3:12 PM
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Do your own homework Bob. That's why we buy the paper.