Government Performance and Results Act

The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) (Pub.L. 103–62) is a United States law enacted in 1993. It is one of a series of laws designed to improve government performance management. The GPRA requires agencies to engage in performance management tasks such as setting goals, measuring results, and reporting their progress. In order to comply with the GPRA, agencies produce strategic plans, performance plans, and conduct gap analyses of projects. The GPRA of 1993 established project planning, strategic planning, and set up a framework of reporting for agencies to show the progress they make towards achieving their goals. The GPRA Act of 2010 took the existing requirements of the 1993 act and made it a more efficient and modern system for government agencies to report their progress.

The Government Performance Act was signed by President Clinton August 3, 1993. The GPRA was not implemented until the year 1999. From the time it was signed the Government focused on data collection and preparation for the following fiscal year. The fiscal year for the federal budget always starts October 1 and ends September 30 the following year. Before the GPRA was enacted, there was an attempted legislation in the 1960s trying to fulfill the task the GPRA now achieves; it was called the Program Planning and Budgeting System. Similar legislation also attempted to approach performance management such as: Zero-Based Budgeting, Total Quality Management, and a few other minor programs. These were some of the many unsuccessful programs that tried to establish Federal Performance Budgeting. Where these other bills failed to receive enough legislative approval to be made into law, the GPRA was successfully approved by both Congress and the President. To ensure the GPRA continued to have a lasting impact on January the 4th of 2011 President Obama signed the Government Performance and Results Modernization Act of 2010 into law. The GPRA has fully served its intended purpose of agency goal reporting and achieving for twenty three years.

This act was established to gain trust of the American people. The government will be held accountable for all programs results to be achieved.

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is tasked pursuant to the GPRA with producing an annual report on agency performance. This is produced with the President's annual budget request.

On January 4, 2011, President Obama signed H.R. 2142, the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 (GPRAMA), into law as Pub.L. 111–352. Section 10 requires agencies to publish their strategic and performance plans and reports in machine-readable formats. StratML is such a format.

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