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HEHS-98-181R 1 (1998-06-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacmio0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Health, Education, and Human Services Division B-279792 June 10, 1998 The Honorable Bob Stump Chairman The Honorable Lane Evans Ranking Minority Member Committee on Veterans' Affairs House of Representatives Subject: Results Act: Observations on VA's Fiscal Year 1999 Performance Plan This letter presents our observations on the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) annual performance plan for fiscal year 1999. Our review was done in response to a January 26, 1998, request from several members of the House Majority Leadership to review the performance plans of the 24 federal agencies covered by the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act, which include VA. On April 20, 1998, we briefed your staff and staff of the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs on our observations. The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (the Results Act) requires federal agencies to prepare annual performance plans covering the program activities set out in the agencies' budgets, beginning with plans for fiscal year 1999. VA submitted its first annual performance plan to the Congress in February 1998 as part of its fiscal year 1999 budget submission. These plans are to (1) establish performance goals to define levels of performance to be achieved; (2) express those goals in an objective, quantifiable, and measurable form; (3) briefly describe the operational processes; skills and technology; and human, capital, information, or other resources required to meet the goals; (4) establish performance measures for assessing the progress toward or achievement of the goals; (5) provide a basis for comparing actual program results with the established goals; and (6) describe the means to be used to verify and validate measured values. GAOIIHEHS-98-181R VA's FY 1999 Performance Plan /7(,o (i ,-(

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