Agencies and the White House are getting into the weeds of how to put the OPEN Government Data Act into effect. Almost a year after the passage of the OPEN Government Data Act and the Foundations for ...

One of the great—if largely unsung—bipartisan congressional acts of recent history was the passage in 2018 of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act. In essence, the “Evidence Act” ...

A bipartisan commission wants the government to use program data to determine whether policies work, but there are political barriers. A bipartisan commission chartered by Congress recently delivered ...

Austin skyline. The city's “Reimagining Public Safety” project used evidence-based policymaking to inform the city's budget decisions and to shape public safety policies starting in 2020.

Recommendations for cloud contracts at the General Services Administration from Roger Waldron, president at The Coalition for Government Procurement, who says GSA is currently creating “vertical ...

This report is about using science as evidence in public policy. Science identifies problems—endangered species, obesity, unemployment, and vulnerability to natural disasters or bioterrorism or cyber ...