Book Description

The Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) was designed to improve Government-wide program effectiveness, Government accountability, and ultimately, public confidence by requiring agencies to identify measurable annual performance goals, against which actual achievements can be compared. The GPRA requires Federal agencies to prepare strategic plans, annual performance plans, and program performance reports covering the program activities set out in their budgets. This report is one in a series on DoD GPRA reporting. In March 2000, DoD fulfilled its GPRA reporting requirement by publishing its combined Annual Performance Plan for FY 2001 and Annual Program Performance Report for FY 1999 in Appendix I of the DoD Annual Report to the President and Congress. In the Annual Report, DoD established two corporate-level goals and eight performance goals designed to measure achievement of the two corporate goals. An additional 49 performance measures and indicators help evaluate the status of performance goals by assessing the quantifiable outputs of the performance goals. Performance Indicator 2.3.2, "Unfunded Depot Maintenance Requirements," is designed to monitor the trend of unfunded depot maintenance to ensure that maintenance backlogs do not grow substantially over time. See Appendix B for the complete text of Performance Indicator 2.3.2. In the GPRA report, DoD indicated it had met the FY 1999 performance goal for unfunded depot maintenance and that a maintenance backlog for the Military Departments of $1.2 billion remained as of September 30, 1999. The objective was to determine whether DoD consistently and accurately compiled the information used to compute the DoD unfunded depot maintenance requirements. An additional objective was to determine whether DoD was achieving the goal of reducing unfunded depot maintenance requirements. A summary report on DoD GPRA implementation will discuss the management control program.