Only two federal agencies increased their use of performance-based decision-making between 2007 and 2013, according to a government watchdog.
The Government Accountability Office said its analysis “found that most agencies showed no statistically significant change in use during this period” in a report made public Friday.
Only the Department of Labor and the Office of Personnel Management raised their scores on an index GAO created in 2007 to gauge how widely federal managers use performance-based measures in their daily operations and decisions.
The federal government’s overall score on the index actually declined from 2007 to 2013, GAO said.
Four agencies had what GAO called “statistically significant” declines in their index scores, including the Department of Veterans Affairs, NASA, Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Eighteen other departments and agencies included in the GAO index saw no change during the period of 2007 to 2013.
“If agencies do not effectively use performance measures and performance information to track progress and achieve their goals, they increase the risk of failing to achieve them,” GAO said in its transmittal letter to Congress for the report.
Go here for the full GAO report.
Mark Tapscott is executive editor of the Washington Examiner.
