Managing For Results: Agencies' Annual Performance Plans Can Help Address Strategic Planning Challenges

Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed federal agencies' strategic plans submitted in response to the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, focusing on: (1) summarizing its observations on agencies' September plans; and (2) providing additional information on how the next phase of the Results Act's implementation--performance planning measurement--can be used to address the critical planning issue GAO observed in reviewing the September strategic plans.