Strategic Plan in the United States

Strategic Plan in the Federal Budget Process

Meaning of Strategic Plan in the congressional and executive budget processes (GAO source): Federal agency plan containing the organization’s comprehensive mission statement, general goals and objectives, description of how the goals and objectives are to be achieved, description of how performance goals are related to the general goals and objectives, identification of key external factors, and description of program evaluations used to establish the general goals and objectives. Strategic plans must cover a period of not less than 5 years and must be updated and revised at least every 3 years.

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See Also

• Federal Appropriations
• Entries about the United States Budget Process in the Encyclopedia (including Strategic Plan)
• Public Debt

Further Reading

• Legislatures and the budget process: the myth of fiscal control

  (J Wehner, 2010)

• Reconcilable Differences?: Congress, the Budget Process, and the Deficit (JB Gilmour, 1990)
• Fiscal institutions and fiscal performance

  (JM Poterba, J von Hagen, 2008)