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Coast Guard: Marine Safety

The Coast Guard's Marine Safety program works to prevent deaths, injuries, and property losses in the maritime domain. The program has two parts: Commercial Vessel Safety, which ensures the safe operation of vessels like cargo ships and ferries, and Recreational Boating Safety, which administers state boat safety grants.

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.
  • This program conducts ad hoc analyses to investigate deviation from annual performance targets, but does not have an insitutionalized set of annual performance metrics to track improvement in the program's outcomes.
  • Although this program has demonstrated long-term improvements in its performance, because its long-term goals were often set above the prior year's level of achievement, it is difficult to tell whether managers are truly challenged to improve program performance.
  • This program exercises sound financial management techniques that hold program partners accountable for program performance.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

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

  • Instuitionalizing an annual operational measures scorecard to help program managers better understand factors that contribute to year-to-year changes in program performance.
  • Improving existing performance measures to reflect better the effect of a growing boating population on the program's performance.
  • Developing a plan for regular, independent assessments of Coast Guard programs instead of one-time evaluations.

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