Strengths and Weaknesses in Agency Performance Plans.(Brief Article)

Working with the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, the General Accounting Office (GAO) has analyzed the status of agency compliance with the Government Performance and Results Act throughout each stage of the act's implementation. In its most recent report, GAO took a look at annual performance plans and detailed their strengths and weaknesses.

I applaud the improvements in many agency plans. We need to do everything we can to move this process along so that agency heads can begin to manage for results and we can finally make decisions about which programs are working and which are not. This is one more step in that process.

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