Government operations and workforce

Executive Order 13576: Delivering an Efficient, Effective, and Accountable Government

President: Barack Obama

Launched a waste-reduction campaign and a board to spread Recovery Act spending-data and fraud-detection practices.

Status: Completed/expired. Is Executive Order 13576 still in effect? No. Executive Order 13576 is completed or expired. See Federal Register record.

What does Executive Order 13576 do?

EO 13576 reinforced agency performance management, launched the Campaign to Cut Waste and created the Government Accountability and Transparency Board. The board had a six-month reporting assignment and used existing resources to recommend common spending data and fraud-detection practices. Its work informed later data-transparency reforms, but the original campaign and board are no longer operating as current programs.

Administration position: The order coordinated management reforms; it did not cancel appropriations or independently determine that particular spending was fraudulent.
SignedJune 13, 2011
OversightVice President and OMB
Board report deadlineSix months

Before and after

Before the order

Recovery Act oversight had developed data and fraud tools that were not yet applied government-wide.

After the order

A board tested broader use of those practices and agencies intensified performance and waste reviews.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Agency headsConduct performance and waste reviewsHistorical program
GAT BoardRecommend integrated spending-data guidelinesCompleted
OMBAssist agencies and monitor reformsContinuing under later frameworks

What happened next

EO 13576 launched the initiative.