The White House has released what it terms its last set of agency priority goals, 92 of them, before the next administration takes office—some of which continue or build on prior initiatives but some of which are new.
Among the latter category are initiatives on climate change involving support of lowering carbon emissions, intensive services for veteran and service member American Job Center participants, improving affordability of college student loans, preserving and expanding the affordable housing stock, and support for the launch of a new space telescope.
Also announced was the start of the “leaders delivery network” which is to consist of “a select group of high achieving senior leaders who are each responsible for delivering on one of the agency priority goals. The network will connect its members to each other to share their insights and expertise and will also give them unprecedented access to thought leaders in the performance field,” OMB director Shaun Donovan said in a blog post.
Cross-agency priority mission goals fall into the general categories of cybersecurity, climate change, insider threat and security clearance reform, job-creating investment, infrastructure permitting modernization, STEM education and service members and veterans’ health.
Particular management focuses include improvements in customer service, smarter IT delivery, strategic sourcing, shared services, benchmarking and improving mission support operations, open data and lab to market initiatives. In the personnel management area, initiatives focus on creating a culture of excellence and engagement, improvements in hiring and training of management starting with senior executives, and improved hiring processes generally.
