§1124 Performance Improvement Officers and the Performance Improvement Council

Summary

Agency heads must pick a senior executive to be the agency Performance Improvement Officer (PIO), after talking with the agency Chief Operating Officer (COO). The PIO reports to the COO. Working under the COO, the PIO must help the agency meet its mission and goals by using strategic and performance planning, measuring and analyzing results, checking progress regularly (including at least quarterly on priority goals), and using performance information to make things better. The PIO must also help choose agency goals (including teaming with other agencies), help carry out the planning and reporting rules under sections 1115 through 1122 and section 306 of title 5, put performance measures into staff reviews and planning, and share progress with leaders, employees, Congress, and on the agency’s public website. A Performance Improvement Council is created and is chaired by the Deputy Director for Management of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The Council includes the PIO from each agency listed in section 901(b) and other PIOs or people the chair adds. The chair runs the Council, sets the agenda, and can form subgroups. The Council must help the OMB Director improve government performance and meet Federal Government priority goals, help apply the planning and reporting rules (including sections 1115, 1120, 1121, and 1122), solve cross‑government problems, share successful practices, work with other interagency groups, get input from nonmember and smaller agencies, consider private and other governments’ experiences, request help and information from agencies, and send recommendations to the OMB Director or the President as the chair requires. The General Services Administration must give administrative support. Agency heads with PIOs on the Council must, when appropriate and allowed by law, provide up to 2 personnel authorizations to serve under the chair.