OMB Watch released new federal spending data on contracts and assistance spending on FedSpending.org yesterday. The site now has full spending data for federal contracts from FY 2000 through the first two quarters of FY 2008 and federal assistance data (grants, loans, and related spending) from FY 2000 through the first three quarters of FY 2007. The FedSpending.org database currently contains over $18.7 trillion in federal spending dating back to FY 2000. This update also made minor site improvements, including added advanced search functionality and bugs fixes. The data update also marks an important milestone for FedSpending.org - 10 million searches - which occured at some point around July 1. The site is a bit less than two years old, but in that time, FedSpending.org has grown to process more than 1 million searches from approximately 400,000 unique visitors each month. On July 1, Alexa.com ranked FedSpending.org 32,259 in traffic among websites on the Internet. Yowza! The site has continued to surpass all of our expectations that we held when we created it. I hope we can continue to make the site useful and relevant for users in the years to come. FedSpending.org Reaches 10 Millionth Search