Improving Government Program Performance

Impact dates

1. Date TBD

   OMB Director issues instructions on goal contents and approval schedules

2. Date TBD

   Performance Improvement Officers convene personnel regularly throughout each year

Key directives

• Agency heads must approve clear annual and long-term goals with objectively measurable outcomes for each program
• Agency heads must assign specified personnel duties, authority, and resources to achieve goals
• Agency websites must include regularly updated, searchable performance information
• OMB Director must issue instructions on goal contents and approval schedules
• OMB Director must establish Performance Improvement Council
• Performance Improvement Officers must supervise agency performance management activities
• Performance Improvement Officers must convene specified personnel regularly throughout each year to assess performance
• Council must develop public Internet website on agency performance
• Council must coordinate continuous review of all Federal programs

Who is ordered

• Agency Head · Various
• OMB Director · Office of Management and Budget
• Performance Improvement Officer · Various
• Deputy Director for Management · Office of Management and Budget
• Director of National Intelligence · ODNI

Timeline

Risks & tensions

• No hard deadlines specified; implementation pace depends entirely on OMB Director discretion
• Vague 'regularly throughout each year' and 'from time to time' language reduces accountability
• Section 7(b) subject-to-appropriations clause may limit enforcement
• Potential tension between performance transparency and information protection laws cited in Section 7(b)
• Intelligence community carve-out in Section 7(c) creates implementation gap for national security programs