President's Management Agenda - 2018

The Office of Management and Budget released the President’s Management Agenda on March 20th, 2018.

The agenda includes 14 areas of program emphasis/priority goals.  The agenda describes three broad “drivers of transformation,” which are, on their own, cross agency priority goals:

• Data, accountability and transparency.
• Workforce for the 21st century.
• IT modernization.

Beyond the three main priority goals, the administration named 11 others for a total of 14:

• Improving customer experience with federal services;
• Sharing quality services;
• Shifting from low-value to high-value work;
• Category management: leveraging common contracts and best practices to drive savings and efficiencies;
• Results-oriented accountability for grants;
• Getting payments right;
• Improving outcomes through federal IT spending transparency;
• Improving management of major acquisitions;
• Modernize infrastructure permitting;
• Security clearance, suitability and credentialing reform; and
• Improving transfer of federally-funded technologies from lab to market

You can visit the White House website, and download a .pdf copy of the agenda here:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/management/pma/