U.S. Department of State

The President's Management Agenda - U.S. Department of State

The President's Management Agenda (PMA) is the President's strategy for improving the management and performance of the federal government, with a focus on results. The PMA contains five government-wide and nine agency-specific initiatives that hold federal agencies to a standard of excellence for achieving results that matter to the American people. On an annual basis, the Department works with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to set a vision for where the agency would be "Proud To Be" the following year on PMA goals. The Department and OMB then strategize on how best to accomplish "Proud To Be" goals through incremental progress on each initiative. OMB tracks agency activities and issues a PMA executive scorecard on a quarterly basis, which rates the Department's progress and overall status for each of the PMA initiatives using a color-coded grading scale of red, yellow, and green.

Improving management performance has been an important priority and to date the Department has achieved green status for three of the five government-wide initiatives as well as for two agency-specific initiatives: Federal Real Property Asset Management and Right-Sized Overseas Presence. Below are the Department's complete scorecard results as of September 30, 2007. For more information please visit: http://www.whitehouse.gov/results/agenda/scorecard.html.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE STATUS AND PROGRESS ON PMA INITIATIVES
As of September 30, 2007

PMA Initiative	Description	Status	Progress
Strategic Management of Human Capital	Build, sustain, and deploy effectively a skilled, knowledgeable, diverse and high-performing workforce aligned with mission objectives and goals.
Improved Financial Performance	Implement world-class financial services that support strategic decision-making, mission performance, and improved accountability to the American people.
Competitive Sourcing	Achieve efficient, effective competition between public and private sources and establish infrastructure to support competitions.
Performance Improvement	Improve the performance and management of the federal government by linking performance to budget decisions and improve performance tracking and management. The ultimate goal is better control of resources and greater accountability over results.
Expanded Electronic Government	Expand the federal government's use of electronic technologies (such as e-procurements, e-grants, and e-regulation) so that Americans can receive high-quality government service.
Federal Real Property Asset Management	Promote the efficient and economical use of America�s real property assets.
Right-Sized Overseas Presence (OMB Lead)	Reconfigure U.S. Government overseas staff allocation to the minimum necessary to meet U.S. foreign policy goals.
Explanation of Status Scores: Agency meets standards for success Agency has achieved intermediate levels of performance Agency has any number of serious flaws Explanation of Progress Scores: Implementation is proceeding according to plan There is some slippage in implementation schedule or quality of products Initiative is in serious jeopardy

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