Chapter 4 – Strategic Planning – The NGSP-SEE Link
4.5 – The NGSP-SEE Link
The NGSP establishes a series of clearly defined long-term goals and five-year objectives that anticipate and prepare NOAA for the challenges and opportunities it will face over the next 25 years. The objectives identified in the NGSP are the basis for NOAA’s corporate planning, performance management, and stakeholder engagement over the next five years. Objectives are specific outcomes NOAA can achieve on the path to broader, long-term goals and toward a more capable, flexible enterprise. They are measurable and can be affected by specified activities over a five-year period.
While uncertainty is inherent in any long-term planning initiative, the NGSP allows NOAA to adapt to a changing environment while continuing to strive toward its vision of resilient ecosystems, communities, and economies, and deliver on its mission of science, service, and stewardship. With the NGSP goals in mind, the SEE process provides a detailed annual roadmap for each LO, SO, and council, which will allow for improved execution of programs, and ultimately, enhanced accountability. NOAA’s LOs and SOs will be accountable for executing the strategies laid out in the NGSP. Where there are shared capabilities to achieve an objective, there will also be joint accountability for budgeting, executing, and performing toward that objective.
NOAA will systematically monitor and evaluate performance toward the outcome oriented goals and objectives in the NGSP. Evaluating performance will allow NOAA to learn from its successes and failures and continually improve itself as an organization and better deliver on the promise of its mission of science, service, and stewardship. NOAA’s performance measures, including those required under the Government Performance and Results Modernization Act of 2010, are published annually in the NOAA Annual Performance Plan and Performance and Accountability Report.
