§1120 Federal Government and agency priority goals

Summary

The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) must work with federal agencies to set government-wide priority goals to make the government work better. These goals must include a few outcome-focused goals that cut across agencies and goals to fix management problems like money, people, information technology, buying things, and buildings. The goals must be long-term, updated at least once during the first year of each Presidential term, made public when the President’s first full-year budget is sent to Congress, and include a plan to achieve each goal within that Presidential term. OMB can change the goals if big circumstances change, but Congress must be told. OMB must talk with key Congressional committees and post goal information on a public website, and the government’s performance plan must match these priority goals. Every 2 years, each covered agency head must pick agency priority goals from its performance goals. OMB decides how many goals each agency and the whole government will have. Agency goals must be the agency’s top priorities, have ambitious targets that can be met in 2 years, name a responsible goal leader, and include quarterly milestones and interim targets when useful. Secret national defense or foreign policy items go in a classified appendix. Only federal employees may develop these goals.