FEMA Office of Policy and Program Analysis
FEMA Office of Policy and Program Analysis : "Formed in October 2006, the Office of Policy and Program Analysis is responsible for providing leadership, analysis, coordination and decision-making support on agency policies, plans, programs and key initiatives. Office of Policy and Program Analysis encompasses the following activities and elements: (1) Defense Production Act (DPA) Program provides guidance and coordination for the use of DPA authorities by Federal and State governments and the private sector on the use of DPA authorities to expedite the procurement of critical supplies for national defense and homeland security purposes. (3) Policy provides guidance and coordination for the agency's policy system and represents the agency on department-level policy matters. (5) Program Analysis & Evaluation (PA&E) provides the agency's leadership with objective, comprehensive analyses of current and proposed FEMA programs and provides recommendations concerning program operations and alignment of objectives and resources with strategic priorities. (6) Strategic Planning provides guidance and coordination in order to help the agency make innovative and informed decisions about FEMA's long term direction, and to facilitate integrated strategic planning and decision-making. (7) Transformation Management provides centralized organizational change management across the agency by providing the expertise and structure to execute agency-level projects and the continuity to ensure that change efforts lead to cumulative agency improvements that make FEMA better, stronger, and faster". (DHS, FEMA OMA FY2009 Budget Justification, 2008, 32). During FY 2008 the Office of Policy and Program Analysis will: (1) "Employ a business approach to the way we do business by establishing program analysis that provides a basis for institutionalizing a results oriented, return-on-investment management culture. This will help improve FEMA's ability to connect program budgets to strategy and policy, providing the FEMA Administrator with sound program analyses to help determine priorities among FEMA's many competing resource needs. (2) Establish a standardized policy system that helps identify potential conflicts across policies and that allows quick and easy retrieval of FEMA policies for all users, internal and external. (3) Fully implement the Executive Management System (EMS) to manage a concurrence clearance process, collecting feedback in a central location for thousands of documents. EMS will also become a data repository for FEMA documents and information, with built-in search functions and the ability to report on the status of documents". (DHS, FEMA OMA FY2009 Budget Justification, 2008, 33)
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