OMB PART Summaries by Strategic Goal - Strategic Goal 2: Counterterrorism
FY 2004 Performance and Accountability Report
Bureau of Resource Management
November 2004
Report
Strategic Goal 2: COUNTERTERRORISM
| Title or Topic |
Anti-Terrorism Assistance |
| Evaluator |
Office of Management and Budget Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) |
| Department Contact |
Francis X. Taylor, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) |
| Scores and Ratings |
- CY 2002: Moderately Effective
- CY 2003: Effective
- CY 2004: Not Reassessed
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| Major Findings/ Recommendations |
- Seek to improve long-term outcome measure to capture qualitative improvements to host country capabilities.
- Demonstrate progress on newly developed efficiency measure and incorporate refined measure into the
FY 2006 budget. |
| Major Actions Taken or That Will be Taken |
- Working with OMB, Bureau of Counterterrorism has improved long-term outcome measures to better capture improvements in host country capabilities.
- A revised efficiency measure has been developed and submitted with the PART input for this year's reassessment, and has been approved by OMB.
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| PART Performance Measures |
Long Term Measure:
- Number of participant countries that achieve a capability to effectively deter, detect and counter terrorist organizations and threats and sustain those capabilities.
Annual Measures:
- Percentage of United Nations (UN) member states implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1373 that requires all states to take sweeping measures to combat terrorism.
- Number of planned anti-terrorism courses and number of course evaluations to ensure that skills taught continue to be retained and used after training is completed.
- Perform consistent and timely reviews of groups designated as Foreign Terrorist Organizations pursuant to U.S. law.
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| Title or Topic |
Terrorist Interdiction Program (TIP) |
| Evaluator |
Office of Management and Budget Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART) |
| Department Contact |
J. Cofer Black, Ambassador, Bureau of Counterterrorism (S/CT) |
| Scores and Ratings |
- CY 2003: Results Not Demonstrated
- CY 2004: Effective
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| Major Findings/ Recommendations |
- Complete program management staff improvements.
- Develop targets for long-term goal of system installations.
- Seek to improve long-term outcome measure to capture qualitative improvements to host country capabilities.
- Demonstrate progress on newly developed efficiency measure and incorporate refined measure into the
FY 2006 budget. |
| Major Actions Taken or That Will be Taken |
- Targets have been initially established for long-term goal of providing the TIP watchlisting system to every country on the joint-agency developed "tier list."
- Improved long-term outcome measures to capture improvements in host country capabilities which have been approved by OMB.
- A revised efficiency measure has been submitted with the PART input, and has been approved by OMB.
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| PART Performance Measures |
Long Term Measures:
- Percentage of the highest priority countries capable of screening for terrorists through implementation of the TIP.
- Percentage of travelers screened by participating nation governments with the TIP's watchlisting system across all sites at which the system is installed. Target is 100% by the year 2009.
Annual Measures:
- Number of TIP PISCES phased installations completed per yearly appropriation.
- Annual increase in the number of highest priority foreign ports of entry equipped to conduct terrorist watchlisting in cooperation with the United States.
- Percentage of foreign government usage of the TIP's watchlisting system across all sites where the system is installed.
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