WASHINGTON—In a blog posted today on Recovery.gov, Chair Kathleen S. Tighe of the Recovery Board describes how consistent data standards would lead to better data quality across the government and improved oversight of taxpayer dollars.
She recounts how the government has failed to develop a data standard system for nearly a half century, noting that President Lyndon B. Johnson issued a report to Congress on the government’s management of automatic data processing in 1965.
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