The White House has posted a final quarterly update on Performance.gov covering two-year agency priority goals spanning 2012 – 2013. OMB said it would soon be setting new performance strategic plans, establish new two-year agency priority goals, and select new cross-agency priority goals – reportedly as part of its fiscal 2015 budget request to be issued March 4.
OMB touted the following highlights from efforts under priority goals set by agencies:
-In 2013, the Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration met its goal of increasing the annual number of new markets that current exporters enter with ITA assistance to 6,100, a 7 percent increase.
-The Department of the Treasury estimates that it has saved hundreds of millions of dollars undera priority goalto increase electronic transactions, improving service, preventing fraud and reducing costs – while electronic collections jumped from 85 percent of total collections in 2010 to 97 percent in 2013, reducing costs.
-The Small Business Administration made progress making it more efficient for small businesses to get loans, while also reducing cost under a priority goal of improving business loan efficiency.
-The Department of State leveraged its diplomatic mission overseas to increase the number of market-oriented economic and policy activities by 15 percent (over 200 diplomatic missions promoting US goods and services), helping to drive exports, create opportunity abroad, and increase economic growth and job creation.
-The Department of Housing and Urban Development focused on helping borrowers at the very early stages of delinquency where prevention is most effective, helping to reduce six month re-default rates from 17 percent in 2011 to 8 percent in 2013 among those who were helped by the agency’s mitigation programs.
