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NOAA Transition: Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution System

Summary

NOAA’s business processes align resources with NOAA’s Strategic Plan so that work can be performed to meet strategic goals. NOAA divides its business operations into three broad categories: Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution System (PPBES), Support Services and Management of Resources.

The NOAA PPBES is an inclusive process that ties each of the major resource planning, allocation, and management processes together to ensure all activities effectively achieve NOAA’s mission. NOAA’s Support Services provide strategy, policy, managerial, and programmatic support and implementation.

Management of Resources functions provide NOAA-wide administrative and organizational activities necessary to develop and maintain facilities, workforce, and information technology infrastructure.

PPBES Annual Objectives

• Plan to achieve NOAA strategic priorities
•  Prioritize resources
• Develop and select the best options for meeting Strategic Plan goals
• Focus budget expenditure and program results and accountability
• Manage project cost, schedule, and performance
• Adjust resource requirements relative to execution performance
•  Evaluate overall effectiveness of the NOAA Program

“PPBES” is NOAA’s integrated, requirements-based Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System that is designed to:

• Use NOAA’s strategic vision to drive annual investment and management priorities, programmatic and policy choices, and budget development
• Provide a systematic approach to allocating resources optimally and maximizing programmatic impact.

Adapted from established PPBS practices in the Defense Department, PPBES was designed to address NOAA’s corporate decision-making needs, based on recommendations of the 2002 NOAA Performance Review Team. It also was designed to comply with external demands for improved strategic management and performance-based budgeting, as set forth in the President’s Management Agenda and Government Performance and Results Act.

NOAA first implemented the PPBES in FY 2003 and, at the end of FY 2008, will have completed
three full cycles covering all four phases of the system. PPBES is implemented through a NOAA
Administration Order (NAO) 216-111.

In accordance with the Federal appropriations and reporting cycle, PPBES focuses on annual objectives for using all available NOAA resources to achieve the best return on investment in pursuit of fulfilling NOAA’s strategic goals. PPBES allows for careful planning, prioritization of resources across competing requirements, fact-based assessments of best program options, objective evaluation of performance, and strict focus on accountability. And PPBES serves as a program, project, and milestone system to orient and influence all NOAA activity levels and requirements.