Department of Energy

Usefulness of Performance Plan Could Be Improved Gao ID: T-RCED-99-134 March 24, 1999

The Department of Energy's (DOE) annual performance plan for fiscal year 2000, which is mandated by the Government Performance and Results Act, is linked to the agency's strategic plan and to the program activities in the agency's budget request. The plan also recognizes the importance of verifying and validating DOE's performance. At the same time, the plan could be more useful if it better identified planned outcomes, presented information on individual offices' planned performance and requested funds, and described its verification and validation procedures in greater detail.

GAO noted that: (1) DOE's annual performance plan for FY 2000 is linked to the Department's strategic plan and to the program activities in the Department's budget request; (2) the annual plan also recognizes the importance of verifying and validating the Department's performance; and (3) however, the annual plan could be more useful if it better identified planned outcomes, presented information on individual offices' planned performance, requested funds to meet the needs of congressional decisionmakers during their review of the budget request, and described its verification and validation procedures in more detail.



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