Agencies Under the Gun to Meet Data Transparency Deadlines

The Obama Administration has six months to prove its implementation of a sweeping new data transparency law is on track. The Office of Management and Budget and the Treasury Department have until May 2015 to finish hammering out common standards for agencies to identify and track federal financial data as required by the Digital Accountability and Transparency -- or DATA -- Act. Lawmakers and congressional auditors say they’re closely tracking agencies’ progress. The end goal of the DATA Act is to provide nearly all federal spending data in a single, searchable online database.