This study analyzes the impact of e-government capacity and program management capacity on federal program performance by using two sets of performance data collected by Office of management and Budget -- the Performance Assessment Rating Tools and the Executive Branch Management Scorecard. The study results show that e-government capacity building creates a notable improvement in federal program performance. However, this effect was only observed when e-government capacity had reached a significant level of development. This finding implies that government organizations' investment in e-government should continue in order to develop e-government capacity in several critical areas: e-government planning, enterprise-wide architecture building, systems security assurance, implementation of projects on time and within budget, and provisioning services for diverse e-government service users. Consistent with the rationale behind the recent government reform efforts, this study also found that management capacities, including program design quality, program planning quality, and program management quality, are all significant antecedents of individual program performance.
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