The Department of Transportation has reached green status on
the Office of Management and Budget’s traffic light style
scorecard sheet for four out five management initiatives,
human capital, competitive sourcing, e-government and budget
and performance integration.
It is still in the red for a fifth category, financial
performance. A parallel rating for progress in implementing
these initiatives of the president’s management agenda —
which the scorecard is designed to demonstrate – are
overwhelmingly green, with a few yellows here and there.
The Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland
Security, the Department of Housing and Urban Affairs,
Treasury, and the General Services Administration are
among those that continue to have little success getting
a single green rating.
Another winner this time around however is the
Environmental Protection Agency, which was rated green
in both status and progress in e-government, which the
agency says is a result of its implementation of the
National Environmental Information Exchange Network,
enterprise architecture, Central Data Exchange,
and E-dockets systems, as well as for being selected
in 2003 by OMB to lead the agency on the government-wide
e-rulemaking initiative, which created an online portal
– regulations.gov – for proposed regulations across
all agencies and a streamlined method for submitting comments.
