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USASpending moves to ‘big data cloud’

The General Services Administration is moving its huge database of federal spending information to a big data cloud. The USASpending.gov site will make the move...

Federal News Network Staff

June 1, 2012 1:58 pm

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The General Services Administration is moving its huge database of federal spending information to a big data cloud. The USASpending.gov site will make the move to a platform that can take in federal contract award information from a variety of sources and perform data analytics. The system is based on the Apache Software Foundation’s open source Hadoop platform. USASpending lets users search for federal spending information, both prime contracts and subawards, by using simple keyword searches.