# Presentation: 705562

## National Program 308 Second Customer/Stakeholder Workshop and   2000-2005 Performance Assessment28 February-2 March 2006

**United States Department of Agriculture ****• Agricultural Research Service**

##       Agricultural Research Service

**8,000+ employees**
**2,000+ scientists**
**100+ laboratory locations**
**Partnerships with other Federal agencies, universities and industry**

**USDA’s intramural research**
**22 National Programs**
**1,100+ research projects**
**FY06 budget:**
**    ****$1 billion**

## How ARS Plans and Sets Research Priorities

**ARS**
** ****Program **
**& **
**Budgeting **
**Priorities**

**Congress**
**Executive Branch**
**(Department, other Federal agencies)**

**Agency Scientists & Managers**

**Customers, Partners, & Stakeholders**

**How ARS Plans and Sets Research Priorities**

**Scientific Communities**

## How Do We Administer Research?

**Through National Programs**
** ****A National Program is a set of research projects directed toward ****common goals**** to solve agricultural problems of high ****national priority****.**** **
**--****National Programs are outcome driven, e.g., “Alternatives  for methyl bromide.”**

**Water Quality & Management (201)**
**Soil Resource Management (202)**
**Air Quality (203)**
**Global Change (204)**
**Rangeland, Pasture & Forages (205)**
**Manure & Byproduct Utilization (206)**
**Integrated Agricultural Systems (207)**
**Bioenergy & Energy Alternatives (307)**

**Genetic Resources, Genomics and Genetic Improvement (301)**
**Plant Biological & Molecular Processes (302)**
**Plant Diseases (303)**
**Crop Protection & Quarantine (304)**
**Crop Production (305)**
**Methyl Bromide Alternatives (308)**

**ARS National Programs**

**Food Animal Production (101)**
**Animal Health (103)**
**Veterinary, Medical, and Urban Entomology (104)**
**Animal Well-Being and Stress Control Systems (105)**
**Aquaculture (106****)**

**Human Nutrition    (107)**
**Food Safety (animal & plant products) (108)**
**Quality and Utilization of Agricultural Products (306)**

**Notes:**
Currently, the National Program Staff has organized ARS research into 22 National Programs Our 22 National Programs are aligned under the three broad categories of: Animal Production, Product Value and Safety; Natural resources and Sustainable Agricultural systems; and Crop Production, Product Value and Safety. 

## The first NP 308 National Program Cycle

- Input

- Assessment: 2005 External Review

- Implementation: Conduct research

- Planning: OSQR Reviews

- Input: 1999 Workshop

**The first NP 308 National Program Cycle**

***Relevance***

***Quality***

***Performance***

## 2nd NP 308 Customer/Stakeholder Workshop & Performance Assessment: 28 February- 2 March 2006

- Emphasis is on Customer/Stakeholders! Broad spectrum of customer/stakeholders and ARS participants.  We wish that we could have invited even more of you.
- First ~1/3 of workshop will focus on assessment and the remaining ~2/3 of the workshop will focus on the future.

## Feedback to our customers, partners, & stakeholders—focusing on accomplishments relative to promises.

**The Assessment Provides...**

## Feedback to ARS managers as an indicator of NP progress.

**The Assessment Provides...**

## Feedback to OMB and other policy makers regarding performance assessment of the research programs within the Agency 

**The Assessment Provides...**

## Feedback and guidance to ARS scientists to help them focus and direct their efforts on the potential goals for the next program cycle.

**The Assessment Provides...**