Our goal is to change decision-making behavior in Washington. We need to move from a culture that allocates resources based excessively on politics to one that is increasingly based on what's working.
Agencies have a long way to go in developing fully acceptable strategic plans.
The lack of more progress to date is particularly disappointing since agencies have now had over four years since enactment of the Results Act to develop their strategic plans. The poor state of the strategic plans makes it even more important that agencies and OMB produce high quality performance plans next February. The premise of the Results Act was that strategic plans would lay a good foundation for the annual performance plans to follow. Unfortunately, this has not yet happened. We hope that next year's performance plans can at least partially compensate for the deficiencies in the strategic plans and get Results Act implementation back on track.