Weekly Roundup: August 8 - 12, 2016

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John Kamensky

When Congress and Administration Agree to Save Billions. According to Federal News Radio, Congress gave a boost to the Administration’s IT category management initiative by passing the MEGABYTE Act (Making Electronic Government Accountable By Yielding Tangible Efficiencies) that requires agencies to inventory their software licenses and consolidate them where possible.

GPRA Mod Act of 2010 Explained: Part 7

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Governance of Overall Performance System.  After the original GPRA was adopted in 1993, President Clinton designated the deputy secretaries as their department’s “chief operating officers” responsible for overall management and performance issues, and this was continued by subsequent administrations.  President George W.

Is Performance Budgeting an Unnatural Act?

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A couple of recent pieces of research may provide some insight-- and caution -- in attempts to implement performance budgeting.  The first piece looks at challenges raised internally within agencies by professional tensions between finance, performance, and budget personnel in cities in North Carolina, and the second piece looks at the perspectives of local elected officials in Denmark.

 

 

 

GPRA Mod Act of 2010 Explained: Part 6

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Federal Priority Goal Reviews.  According to the Senate committee report, the new law: 

“attempts to lay out a process for reviewing progress towards the federal government priority goals on, at minimum, a quarterly basis. For each federal government priority goal, the Director of OMB should review the progress achieved during the most recent quarter and the likelihood of meeting the performance target.

GPRA Mod Act of 2010 Explained: Part 5

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The original GPRA requires OMB to develop a governmentwide annual performance plan.  OMB chose to designate the President’s budget as meeting that requirement.   Separately, GAO’s 2004 report recommended a governmentwide strategic plan, but OMB saw that as infeasible.  The new law attempts another approach.

GPRA Mod Act of 2010 Explained: Part 4

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Agency Performance Updates.  According to the Senate committee report, the new law:

“. . . requires agencies to provide a performance update at least annually, occurring no later than 150 days after the end of the fiscal year. However, agencies are encouraged to provide more frequent updates that would provide significant value to the federal government, Congress, or – as noted in the statute:  “. . . program partners at a reasonable level of administrative burden.” 

GPRA Mod Act of 2010 Explained: Part 3

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Agency Annual Performance Plans.  The Senate committee report notes:  “GPRA requires executive agencies to develop annual performance plans covering each program activity in the agencies’ budgets.”

It continues, noting that the new law:

Weekly Roundup: August 16 - 19, 2016

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Reforming the Budget Process.  Many of the key elements in the federal budget process have not been re-examined in a half a century.  Senate budget committee chair has made the case for fixing a broken process and proposes a set of 10 recommendations. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget analyzes these recommendations and provides context 

GPRA Mod Act of 2010 Explained: Part 2

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Agency Strategic Plans.  According to the Senate committee report accompanying the new law:

Weekly Round-up: January 07, 2011

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Gadi Ben-Yehuda

 

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