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Coast Guard: Defense Readiness

As one of the five military services, the Coast Guard provides essential assets to support our national security and national military strategies. The Coast Guard interacts with the Department of Defense to protect Navy assets and, when activated by the Secretary of Defense, to serve the combatant commanders.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program has a clear purpose and design, and strong strategic planning and management. It demonstrates progress in achieving its long term performance goals.
  • The program performs adequately, but program investments are not explicitly tied to increased program performance. Financial management continues to be a weakness, but is being addressed by management.
  • The program has demonstrated moderate efficiency gains over previous years. But it is unclear whether program managers could have achieved even more success had more ambitious targets been set for efficiency improvements.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing a more empirical methodology for setting and validating annual targets to ensure that performance improvements are statistically significant.
  • Identifying how program investments affect performance. For example, did new port security units established in 2005 have a beneficial effect on performance?
  • Developing a method for setting ambitious out-year efficiency improvement targets so that program managers are challenged to improve performance in a resource-constrained environment.

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