According to OMB:  “Twenty-four major Federal agencies have . . .identified a limited number of two-year Agency Priority Goals in the FY2013 budget, aligned with their strategic goals and objectives. Agency Priority Goals target areas where agency leaders want to achieve near-term performance acceleration through focused senior leadership attention. The Administration has also adopted a limited number of Cross-Agency Priority Goals to improve cross-agency coordination and best practice sharing.”

CAP GOALS FOR MISSION-SUPPORT FUNCTIONS: CAP Goal 8:  Cybersecurity.  Increase federal information system cybersecurity.By 2014, achieve 95 percent utilization of critical administration cybersecurity capabilities on federal information systems, including strong authentication, Trusted Internet Connections (TIC), and Continuous Monitoring. Goal Leader:  Howard A. Schmidt, U.S. Cybersecurity Coordinator.

OMB identified 14 CAP Goals.  Seven focus on mission-related functions.  Seven focus on mission-support.  All reflect existing initiatives but now have a higher profile.

In our last post, we initiated conversations on the current federal analytics strategy and the important role analytics plays in helping department and agency leaders use better data to make informed decisions and improve operational performance, while reducing costs. Today, our focus is on the role technology in effort to better link data. Information Technology (IT) role to better link data

In our blogs last week, we discussed the vision of analytics in the future and the three key principles government agencies will need to apply to dramatically reduce costs and drive performance improvement.

Several federal agencies have responded to the need for data-driven performance reviews by developing an approach that consists of regularly held, structured, data-driven performance review meetings. This is simple in concept. Some elements, such as periodic program review meetings, are common throughout government. The data-driven performance reviews presented in this report reflect such features but add other elements. What are Data-Driven Performance Reviews?