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Appendix E: Agency and Industry Efficiency Measures
Appendix E: Agency and Industry Efficiency Measures
Pages 95-108
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" Some of the agency measures listed have been approved for use by OMB as of July 26, 2007. The table is not an exhaustive list of efficiency measures used by the federal government, but it includes efficiency measures from a variety of agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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EPA Water Quality Research 2006 Number of peer reviewed publications per FTE (EPA, unpublished material, April 23, 2007) EPA Human Health Risk 2006 Average cost to produce Air Quality Criteria/Science Assessment documents Assessment Program (EPA, unpublished material, April 23, 2007)
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DOE Basic Energy Sciences/ Biological 2006 Average achieved operation time of scientific user facilities as percentage of and Environmental Research total scheduled annual operation time; cost-weighted mean percentage variance from established cost and schedule baselines for major construction, upgrade, or equipment procurement projects (cost variance listed first)
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Management and Delivery DOI U.S. Geological Survey – 2005 Average cost per sample for selected high-priority environmentally available Biological Research & chemical analyses (EPA, unpublished material, 2006)
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Department of National Center for 2003 NCES will release information from surveys within specified times; NCES Education Education Statistics collected baseline information in 2005, examining time-to-release for 31 recent surveys (National Assessment of Educational Progress releases not included in these figures) (EPA, unpublished material, 2006)
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DHHS NIH Intramural Research 2005 Reallocation of laboratory resources based on extramural reviews by Boards of Program Scientific Counselors (OMB 2007) DHHS Bioterrorism: CDC Intramural 2006 Decrease annual costs for personnel and materials development with Research development and continuous improvement of budget and performance integration information system tools (OMB 2007)
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Track, monitor, and budget for trans-NIH AIDS research, using enhanced ARIS database, to more efficiently conduct portfolio analysis of 100% of expiring grants to determine reallocation of resources for priority research (Duran 2007) DHHS Research Training Program 2006 By 2012, ensure that 100% of trainee appointment forms are processed electronically, to enhance program management (OMB 2007)
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TABLE E-1 Continued 102 Agency or Organization Program Year Efficiency Measure NASA Original Uniform Measures Complete all development projects within 110% of cost and schedule baseline Peer-review and competitively award at least 80%, by budget, of research projects Reduce time within which 80% of NRA research grants are awarded, from proposal due date to selection, by 5% per year, with goal of 130 days Deliver at least 90% of scheduled operating hours for all operations and research facilities (Pollitt 2007) NASA 2007 Year-to-year reduction in Space Shuttle sustaining engineering workforce for flight hardware and software while maintaining safe flight Reduction in ground operations cost (through 2012)
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NSF Construction and Operations 2003 Percentage of construction acquisition and upgrade projects with negative cost of Research Facilities and schedule variances of less than 10% of approved project plan (EPA, unpublished material, 2006) NSF Polar Research Tools, 2004 Percentage of construction cost and schedule variances of major projects as Facilities and Logistics monitored by earned-value management (OMB 2007)
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NSF Time to decision for proposals: for 70% of proposals submitted to National Science Foundation, inform applicants about funding decisions within 6 months of proposal receipt or deadline date or target date, whichever is later (Tsuchitani 2007) NSF Facilities cost, schedule, and operations: keep negative cost and schedule variances at less than 10% of approved project plan for 90% of facilities; keep loss of operating time due to unscheduled downtime to less than 10% of total scheduled operating time for 90% of operational facilities (Tsuchitani 2007)
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Safety of Agricultural Food Supply USDA Economic Research Service 2005 Index of ERS product releases per staff year (OMB 2007) USDA Grants for Economic 2006 Cumulative dollars saved for grant review: dollars saved reflect average salary Opportunities and Quality of saved by calculating number of calendar days saved annually between receipt of Life for Rural America proposal and date funding awarded for competitively reviewed proposals, then multiplied by average daily salary for CSREES employees (OMB 2007)
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Alcoa Customer demand (Atkins 2007) Alcoa Risk (Atkins 2007)
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Gamble Procter & Increased confidence about safety (Daston 2007) Gamble Procter & External relations benefits (although not quantifiable)
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2007. PART Efficiency Measures at NIOSH.
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