A new advisory committee will design the recently funded service to implement pilots across agencies increasing data access and privacy — objectives often thought at odds.

The Office of Management and Budget must work with agencies' CDOs to ensure that happens in the first year of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, said…

Waiting to see if, when and how the OPEN, Government Data Act might weave its way through Congress has been something akin to betting on horse racing.

The bill would drive agencies to better use data to measure the effectiveness of their programs, and more.

The report lays out recommendations for the establishment of a National Secure Data Service to oversee transparent and privacy-protected information.

It's part of a flurry of programs meant to modernize Congress and make it more open.

House Speaker Paul Ryan quietly announced the new House Republican national security platform.

President Barack Obama watches the Vice Presidential debate aboard Air Force One with staff, en route to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, from Florida, Oct. 11, 2012. (Official…

Photo: Terence Burlij/PBS NewsHour Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called sequestration “a mistake” during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” because the deal struck by Congress…