First of all, happy Easter to you all. I really appreciate you coming in on a beautiful Thursday afternoon. You could be driving home and spending time with your families.
As we move forward, one of the practices that I support that is contained in this process is the SMART program—the specific, measurable, achievable, reasonable, and time-bound goals that you and each department will be setting—and also the continuous cycle of improvement, the “plan, do, check, improve” that Mr. Woodworth commented on.
Using this procedure in one department will be challenging, but trying to corral all 28 departments in the federal government in the whole-of-government approach—although I see great benefits to it instead of the scattergun approach that was used before—having one concise oversight measure forcing all the departments to get in line, I think is the way to go.
Is there a timeline for each department to have for you this plan that they're supposed to make? Who will evaluate this plan, and how will it be evaluated?