Version 2.0 of USAspending.gov launched this week and includes a cleaner, more elegant user interface and search filtering on all federal government spending. The new site was developed in Drupal and is partially hosted on NASA’s Nebula cloud service.
Users can search anything from bombs to toilet paper and filter government spending by location, timeline, agency, extent competed, recipient, product/service code, NAICS and fiscal year.
USAspending.gov first launched December 2007 as part of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) of 2006 that required the Office of Management and Budget to ‘establish a single searchable website, accessible to the public at no cost’ on all federal government spending.
From USAspending.gov What’s New in 2.0?:
- Compare spending across agencies – understand types of agency spending understand types of agency spending
- View agency spending dashboards – see how and where agencies are spending money and who the recipients are
- Explore spending trends with interactive charts – use interactive motion charts to see how spending trends have changed from year to year
- See spending where you live – use interactive maps to see dollars being spent in your state
- Quickly find what you are looking for – use interactive search features to customize your search across multiple dimensions
- Filter, analyze and share – share your feeds, exports and results with friends via social book-marking and RSS feeds
- Analyze contract and award transactions – review all transactions for a single contract or award in one simple list
- Download bulk data – download all spending data for offline analysis
- Get spending updates every day – access new spending data on a daily basis
- Expect more transparency – look for more spending data in the future as 2.0 is engineered to support full FFATA compliance
