President Barack Obama signs the GPRA Modernization bill in 2011. With him is Chief Performance Officer/OMB Deputy Director for Management Jeff Zients and OMB Associate Director for Performance and Personnel Management, Shelley Metzenbaum.

President Barack Obama signs the GPRA Modernization bill in 2011. With him is Chief Performance Officer/OMB Deputy Director for Management Jeff Zients and OMB Associate Director for Performance and Personnel Management, Shelley Metzenbaum. White House file photo

GovExec Daily: Ten Years of Federal Performance Management

Georgetown's Dr. Donald Moynihan joins the podcast to discuss the reasons for optimism after a decade of the Government Performance and Results Act Modernization Act.

Last month marked the ten-year anniversary of the-president Barack Obama signing the Government Performance and Results Modernization Act. The law established a framework for performance data collection, so ten years on, it might be helpful to look back at its effects on performance management and the future of government performance management .

Dr. Donald Moynihan is McCourt Chair at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. He also has a post on our site right now headlined “Ten Years On, How Has the Federal Performance System Performed?” He joined the show to talk about the post and reasons for optimism in government performance management. 

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