1. Transparency in Federal Spending
The DATA Act
Jay Fohs 7/10/12 Jay.Fohs@MarkLogic.com 301-502-4279
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2. Federal Reporting Today
 Current Reporting
 USASpending.gov
 Cfda.gov
 Recovery.gov
 Treasury Financial Statements
 Inconsistent
 Expenditures vs. obligations
 Outlays vs. paid out
 Jobs Saved vs. Employment
 Accounting principles and standards
 Multiple Formats
 Heterogeneous Systems
 Constantly evolving sources of data
 Growing Exponentially
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3. Federal Spending is Complicated
Agency
Funding
Code
Disbursements
Recipient
 Detailed Spending Data Stays inside Agency
Treasury  Accurate Reporting requires Data Integration
Location
 GSA Approved Vendor + Pricing
Executive
 Contracts – Purchase Order
Agency
Federal  Recipient Performance
Award
Recipient Reporting
 Department Accounting Data
Core Acctg
System  Tier 1 Prime Detail Data Recorded
Requisition,
Purchase Orders
Cash Voucher
 Funding Codes: Treasury Account Symbol (TAS),
Expense Report
Funding Codes
 Monthly Summary Statement of Transaction
Reporting to Treasury by TAS
PDF
Expense Report, Obligation,  Need to maintain integrity of record data,
& Disbursement
Word XLS Reconcile Fund Balance With Treasury
Agency Core
RDBMS Multiple
Accounting
System Data formats of
documents
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4. DATA Act Requires
 Recipient Reporting
 Federal Award
 Quarterly Reporting
 Identification of recipient; Name
 Location; City, County, State, Congressional District, Zip code & Country
 From which Executive Agency
 Agency Reporting
 Obligation and Expenditure
 Identification of recipient; Name
 Location; City, County, State, Congressional District, Zip code & Country
 Treasury Disbursement
 Identification of recipient; Name
 Location; City, County, State, Congressional District, Zip code & Country
 From which Executive Agency
 Financial Accountability Portal
 Integrate information submitted by Recipients and Agencies
 Integrate Treasury Expenditures
 Integrate FPDS and FAADS
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5. DATA Act Standards
Enable Automation
 Taxonomy Agency
Funding
Online
 Agency Code
Disbursements
Travel Req
 Program Recipient
“Manager
Approval”
Treasury
 Product Service Code
 Award
Location
 Recipient Budgetary
Executive
Estimates
Agency
 Funding Code Planning
Federal
Resources
Award
Recipient Reporting
 XBRL-XML Tagging
 <Agency>GSA</Agency>
 <Program>Federal Building Fund</Program>
 <Product-service-code>Lodging</Product-service-code>
 <Award>$154,000.00</Award>
 <Recipient>M Resort</Recipient>
 <Funding Code>TAS</Funding Code>
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6. The DATA Act Enables Data Integration
 Solution
 Defined Taxonomy – Tagging
 Secure, Single Platform with easy-to-use
search
FAST Portal  Spatial display of information
 Real-time Analysis
 Alerting
Transformation,  Benefits
Human &  Fast development: real-time transformation
Machine
Enrichment  Lower operating costs: commodity
Agency hardware, automated process
Funding
Code  Personnel savings: less time required to find
Disbursements information
Recipient
 Constituents getting better information,
Treasury
faster
PDF
Location
 Accountability
Executive Word XLS
Agency  Agency, Recipient, Treasury, Award Name,
Federal RDBMS Unstructured Program, Funding Code, Location
Award Grants &
Recipient Reporting
Contracts Documents
Supporting Data
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7. GSA Las Vegas Conference
 Recipient Data
 Funding Code – Federal Building Fund
 Recipients of funds from the Federal Building Fund
 Airline, Passenger, Date, Justification XBRL
 Hotel, Guest, Date, Justification
 Royal Productions Contract and Purchase Order .xls
 Agency Reporting
 Expenditure was higher than Obligation RDMS
 Travel Expenses - # of trips to Las Vegas XML
Answer
 Treasury Expenditure 47X4542.001
 Funding Code – Federal Building Fund
 Paid Airline, Hotel, “Additional Expenses”
 Financial Accountability Portal
.html
 All information available for IG at one location
 Consults FAADS and FPDS
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8. Analytics on Consolidated Reporting
Government-wide oversight identifies patterns and trends, such as:
 In the fourth quarter of 2010, for each
program in each agency's budget, what
are the most expensive contracts in
each category?
 In the fourth quarter of 2010, which
small-dollar contracts went to large
businesses, in violation of the rule that
small-dollar contracts must be awarded
to small businesses?
 For each program, which expense
categories increased faster than total
expenses, and by what proportion?
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9. Thank you
Jay Fohs 1/25/12 Jay.Fohs@MarkLogic.com 301-502-4279
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10. Benefits of DATA Act
Current Post-DATA Act
Grants/Contracts Reporting •
•
Each agency has own system
No taxonomy
• Recipient form sent to independent
FAST commission
• Manual Reporting • Common taxonomy
• Only summary data sent to central • Detailed (not summary) reports sent
database to one commission (FAST)
Obligation/Disbursement • Each agency tracks O/D in multiple
internal systems
• Agencies report all O/D data (not
just summary) to FAST commission
• Each agency shares summary O/D • Common data format
data to 3 different databases (interoperable, tagged, standards
• No common format or taxonomy based)
• Data not publicly available • 30 day reporting requirement
Treasury Expenditure Data • Treasury expenditure database is
inaccessible
• Treasury required to report all
expenditures to FAST commission
• Common format
• Common taxonomy
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11. Examples of Information Applications
Common Metadata Digital Content Information Social
Repository Catalog Delivery Intelligence Applications
MorganStanley
SmithBarney
 Repurpose information trapped in existing silos
 Make information more accessible and more relevant
 Improve collaboration and decision-making
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