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Federal Drive Interviews -- April 11, 2013

Ray Bjorklund of Birch Grove Consulting, LLC, sheds some light on the 2014 budget numbers. Michael Wood, Recovery Board executive director, discusses that board's oversight of Hurricane Sandy funding. Kay Daly, assistant IG at HHS, talks about financial management and oversight at her agency.

Tags: Federal Drive , Danny Werfel , Ray Bjorklund , Kay Daly

Friday - 04/12/2013, 09:35am EDT

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Recovery Board opens next frontier in financial accountability

Pundits may question whether Congress should have approved $804 billion in stimulus money via the Recovery Act of 2009. But many in government have come to realize that the independent agency charged with overseeing how that money was spent -- the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board -- has a lot to teach financial managers about ensuring transparency and rooting out waste in government spending.

Tags: Recovery Act , RAT Board , Earl Devaney , Kathleen Tighe , Danny Werfel , transparency , technology , financial accountability , Financial management , Rise of the Money People , Michael OConnell , OMB , oversight

Thursday - 04/11/2013, 11:57am EDT

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Recovery.gov discusses cloud success

In 2009, Recovery.gov was created as a way to follow the money being handed out through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Michael Wood, director of Recovery.gov, told Federal News Radio using the cloud has been a major contributing factor to the website’s success, starting with the redesign of Recovery.gov. Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud was [...]

Tags: Amazon , cloud computing , Federal Tech Talk , John Gilroy , RAT Board , Recovery.gov , transparency

Monday - 07/18/2011, 05:02pm EDT

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