Department of Energy Managing at the Speed of Light Improving Mission-Support Performance.

摘要

When the House and Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittees asked the National Academy of Public Administration (Academy) to review three mission-support functions in the Department of Energy (DOE) human resources, contracting, and financial management--no one could have anticipated that before the study ended, new legislation would more than double DOE's budget and add tens of billions of dollars to its new loan guarantee authority. The enactment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act) heightens the concerns that prompted this study, and makes it even more imperative that these critical mission-support functions are positioned to handle the work ahead. Secretary Steven Chu is asking the department to work at the speed of light to address the challenges and embrace the opportunities that lay before it. The mission-support organizations provide the grease that makes the department run. Without mission support, work in the program offices will grind to a halt. Now more than ever, the department's mission-support organizations must be Managing at the Speed of Light to work in partnership with the program offices to accomplish the department's mission.