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GAO-12-620R 1 (2012-05-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacgcy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Accountabiliti - Integrity - Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 May 31, 2012 Congressional Addressees Subject: Managing for Results: GAO's Work Related to the Interim Crosscutting Priority Goals under the GPRA Modernization Act Many of the meaningful results that the federal government seeks to achieve-such as those related to protecting food and agriculture, providing homeland security, and ensuring a well-trained and educated workforce-require the coordinated efforts of more than one federal agency and often more than one sector and level of government. Both Congress and the executive branch have recognized the need for improved collaboration across the federal government. Accordingly, in January 2011 the almost two-decades-old Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) was updated with the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 (GPRAMA or the act).1 The act establishes a new framework aimed at taking a more crosscutting and integrated approach to focusing on results and improving government performance. Effective implementation of the act could play an important role in clarifying desired outcomes, addressing program performance that spans multiple organizations, and facilitating future actions to reduce unnecessary duplication, overlap, and fragmentation.2 Among other things, the act requires the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to coordinate with agencies to establish outcome-oriented federal government priority goals-otherwise referred to as crosscutting goals-covering a limited number of policy areas as well as goals to improve management across the federal government.3 It also requires that OMB-with the agencies-develop a federal government performance plan that defines the level of performance to be achieved toward the crosscutting goals.4 This report is part of our mandate that we assess implementation of the act. 5 Our specific objective for this report was to comment on the federal government's interim crosscutting priority goals provided in the President's 2013 budget submission based on our prior work-and selected ongoing work-and identify our relevant open recommendations and matters for congressional consideration. To accomplish this 1 Pub. L. No. 111-352, 124 Stat. 3866 (2011). GPRAMA amends the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, Pub. L. No. 103-62, 107 Stat. 285 (1993). 2 GAO, 2012 Annual Report: Opportunities to Reduce Duplication, Overlap, Fragmentation, Achieve Savings, and Enhance Revenue, GAO-12-342SP (Washington, D.C.: Feb. 28, 2012). 3 31 U.S.C. § 1120(a)(1). 4 31 U.S.C. § 1115(a). 5 GPRAMA, § 15(b)(1). GAO-1 2-620R: Crosscutting Priority Goals

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