Commerce's Strategic Plan and Performance Reports

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Our mission is to create the conditions for economic growth and opportunity by promoting innovation, entrepreneurship, competitiveness, and stewardship.

The FY 2004-2009 DOC Strategic Plan provides a comprehensive vision for improving the economic growth of the nation through it’s programs.  For the next several years, it puts forth broad objectives; targets specific outcomes we want to achieve, and identifies key challenges.  The Strategic Goals of the Department are:

• Provide the information and tools to maximize U.S. competitiveness and enable economic growth for American industries, workers, and consumers.

• Foster science and technological leadership by protecting intellectual property, enhancing technical standards, and advancing measurement science.

• Observe, protect, and management the earth’s resources to promote environmental stewardship.

• Management Integration Goal:  Achieve organizational management excellence.

The FY 2003 DOC Performance and Accountability Report provides a public accounting of our FY 2004 performance results.

The DOC Annual Performance Plan operationalizes the Strategic Plan, and provides strong linkages to DOC’s budget request.  The Plan defines performance goals and measures used to manage progress toward our strategic objectives.  It describes in detail one fiscal year’s resources and programmatic effort within a strategic context.  

Many of the activities of the Department are independent of other Federal agencies.  However, some of these activities and actions reside entirely within the Federal Government, but most involve significant partnering with State, local and international authorities.   These are the broad areas of action that DOC and others - commonly use to bring about desired results.  

The performance report focuses on DOC’s four strategic goal areas and describes the results we saw in FY 2004.  Some activities are internal ones – like financial management, procurement, and personnel -- without which the Department could not operate or hope to achieve its goals.  The Organizational and Management Excellence section of the report focuses on overall DOC efforts to achieve our part of the President’s Management Agenda, ensuring that we are a citizen-centered and results-oriented organization.