1: Agencies
Other Information:
Agencies: I Federal agencies are the "agents" of Congress and the president. They carry out federal policy and spending decisions.
Accordingly, one of the building blocks of data about spending is going to be a definitive list of the organizational units
that do the spending. Is there such a list? Yes! It's Appendix C of OMB Circular A-11, "Listing of OMB Agency/Bureau and Treasury
Codes." But this list is a PDF document that is found on the Office of
Management and Budget website. Believe it or not, there is NO federal government "organization chart" that is published
in a way amenable to computer processing! There are distinct identifiers for agencies in both the Treasury Department and
the Office of Management and Budget. Either of these could be published as the executive branch's definitive list of its agencies.
This fruit is hanging so low that a gopher could snack on it without leaving its hole, but nobody seems to have
thought of publishing data about the basic units of the executive branch online in a machine-discoverable and machine-readable
format.
Stakeholder(s):
- Government Agencies (Performer): Federal agencies are the "agents" of Congress and the president. They carry out federal policy and spending decisions.
Indicator(s):
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