After much fanfare and speculation, the Office of Management and Budget has launched its new online dashboard to publicly show agency performance management. Performance.gov went live Thursday and is now open to the public, after previously being only available to federal employees. The site displays an agency-by-agency overview of performance …
Read More »Performance.gov’s Public Rollout a Question Mark after E-Gov Funding Cut
Performance.gov was to be a cornerstone of the federal government’s transparency and open-government initiatives. Conceived to be a “one-stop shop” for federal performance information, complete with dashboards tracking key agency goals, the site’s public rollout is now in jeopardy after the administration’s funding for certain federal websites was slashed. The …
Read More »White House Takes to Facebook, Proclaims Open Government Anniversary
Updated 2:22 p.m.: The Open Gov webcast has been rescheduled for 2:30 p.m. tomorrow, Dec. 8, because of the president’s press conference. The White House is gearing up to celebrate the one-year anniversary of its Open Government Initiative, and in a nod to its Gov 2.0 goals, the White House …
Read More »Performance.gov to Clear Review Clutter but Won’t Set Budgets
The federal government is continuing to track agency performance on its new website Performance.gov, which is scheduled to become available to the public later this fall. But Office of Management and Budget Associate Director Shelley Metzenbaum said the performance data compiled on the website would not be used to set …
Read More »Watch Performance in Progress as CPO Jeffrey Zients Launches New Website
As part of ongoing efforts to increase transparency in the federal bureaucracy, President Barack Obama’s chief performance officer announced a new website, performance.gov, will be available to the public later this fall. In a Sept. 14 memo to the Senior Executive Service – the top executives of the federal civilian …
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