The Evolving Stages of Performance-Based Management in the Security Cooperation Community

Abstract

Over the past four years, the Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management Journal has published several articles on various segments of performance-based management (PBM) within the security cooperation community. This article looks at the current status of these financial management initiatives, and how we are integrating planning, programming, budgeting, and costing in a comprehensive fashion. The article examines in some detail the performance-based costing (PBC) initiative within the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA). It also provides a contractor?contractor's perspective of the implementation and sustainment of PBC. These efforts began as a confluence of issues located in the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA), a critical General Accounting Office (GAO) finding in a 1999 report, and the Presidents Management Agenda of 2001 (PMA). Prominent among these issues was the integration of planning, programming, and budgeting to performance, ensuring a more effective use of resources. Specifically, in some form, they called for standardized integration at a sufficient level to provide timely program-level feedback for management. In the key areas of defense security cooperation, foreign military sales (FMS), foreign military financing (FMF), and international military education and training (IMET), DSCA embarked on initiatives to moving these programs significantly towards the goals cited in the PMA, GPRA, and as a response to GAO findings. These efforts are geared to encourage a results-oriented culture of performance throughout the security cooperation community that clearly links resources to programs with measurable results.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA497050

Entities

People

  • Bobby Davis
  • Dan Weiner
  • Don Burke
  • James D. Piche
  • Melani Schultz
  • Patrick Fox
  • Steve Bowdren
  • Thomas Keithly
  • Timothy O'brien
  • Tom Davis
  • William Barr

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  • Defense Security Cooperation Agency

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  • Human Systems

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  • Accounting
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Business Administration
  • Coast Guard
  • Cost Analysis
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  • Political science

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  • International Relations and European Studies