§1116 Agency performance reporting

Summary

Each agency head must put an update about the agency’s performance on the agency’s public website and send it to the Office of Management and Budget. The update must compare actual results to the agency’s performance goals and be posted no later than 150 days after the end of each fiscal year. Agencies should give more frequent updates for important measures. If goals were set in an alternative way under section 1115(c), the report must describe results using that alternative and say if the work met the minimally effective or successful standard. Each update must show actual results for the past 5 fiscal years and assess whether the current performance plan worked. It must explain any missed goals, why they were missed, plans and schedules to fix them, or why a goal is impractical and what to do instead. It must describe any waiver used under section 9703 and if it helped, link goals to human capital management, and explain how data accuracy and reliability were checked (verification methods, sources, required accuracy, limits, and fixes). The update must summarize program evaluation findings and the review under section 1121(c). Classified national security or foreign policy material goes into the classified appendix under section 1115(e). Preparing these updates must be done only by Federal employees because the work is inherently governmental.