Today, the tool box of federal chief financial officers is filled with a broader assortment instruments than ever before to make sure payments go to the correct person or business in the right amount.

There is robotics process automation to address “low-value” or menial tasks. There is predictive analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide decision makers with near real-time information. Underlying all of these tools is the data.

Federal News Network surveyed five agencies about their approach to squeezing more out of their data to protect taxpayer money.

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