OMB Scorecard Shows VA Is On Track in Meeting Goals

WASHINGTON – The President’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today released a “scorecard” showing the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is on track to meeting all five initiatives in the President’s Management Agenda.

OMB gave VA “green lights,” indicating successful progress towards implementation in all five categories of the President’s agenda — strategic management of human capital, competitive sourcing, improving financial performance, expanding electronic government and budget and performance integration.  The scorecard rated VA’s performance as of Dec. 31, 2002.

“I am very proud that OMB has recognized VA’s hard work towards achieving the President’s management goals,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Anthony J. Principi. “Our progress in meeting the goals means we can provide better service to our veterans.”

The President’s Management Agenda is a strategy for improving the management and performance of the government.  The scorecard rates each agency’s progress in performance of goals set jointly by the agency and OMB.  Green is the highest rating OMB awards.

In the previous scorecard, released Sept. 30, 2002, VA received “green lights” in two of the five areas – human capital and budget initiatives.  Two other initiatives — financial performance and electronic government — were given “yellow lights,” indicating mixed results. The competitive sourcing initiative showed the most improvement, moving up from a “red light” for unsatisfactory performance at the end of September to a “green light” for successful performance in December.  

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