5.2: Management Efficiency and Effectiveness

Increase efficiency and effectiveness of agency management.

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To maintain and strengthen its position as a premier public health agency, the FDA will modernize and update many of its administrative support services and ensure the accountability of its administrative support programs to support the needs of agency staff. To accomplish these goals, the agency will adopt new management practices, such as: consolidating the delivery of administrative services using internal performance contracts, reviewing commercial jobs inside the agency (Full Time Equivalents or FTEs) to find those amenable for outsourcing (the FDA plans to review more than one third of its eligible workforce for possible outsourcing by FY 2006) improving information technology capabilities to boost productivity enhancing the agency's financial management to provide tighter control of revenues and expenditures integrating performance and budget information to support smarter resource decisions. Highlights for Objective 2 Reduce administrative positions in FDA Centers by 7.5 percent by 2004 Through "Shared Services" implementation, the FDA will be able to meet its FY 2004 administrative reduction identified in the President's budget. The FDA intends to implement all of these changes with careful attention to the needs of the agency's staff and plans to implement methods for measuring how it is performing in achieving these goals.

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