Performance.gov goes live after lengthy preparations

The long-anticipated and many-times-delayed central federal website Performance.gov went live Thursday morning, providing a new dashboard through which the general public can track spending, cost-cutting and progress in hiring agency by agency.

"Performance.gov advances the commitment in the president's [fiscal] 2011 budget to communicate candidly and concisely what the federal government is trying to accomplish, how it is trying to accomplish it and why these efforts are important," reads the home page of the site, which is coordinated by the Office of Management and Budget. "It provides a window on the administration's efforts to deliver a more effective, smarter and leaner government."...