CROSS-AGENCY PRIORITY GOALS

Established by the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010, Cross-Agency Priority (CAP) Goals are a tool used to accelerate progress on a limited number of priority areas where implementation requires active collaboration between multiple agencies, overcoming organizational barriers to achieve better performance than one agency can achieve on its own.

Set or revised at least every four years, CAP Goals include outcome-oriented goals that cover a limited number of crosscutting policy areas as well as management goals focused on management improvements across the Federal Government in areas of financial management, strategic human capital management, information technology management, procurement and acquisition management, and real property management.

A series of 16 CAP Goals were announced in the 2015 Budget with clearly named accountable officials, data-driven reviews that incorporated a broad range of quantitative and qualitative inputs, and reporting to the public through a common website as a framework to drive performance improvements on cross-government collaboration and tackle government-wide management challenges affecting most agencies.

Mission

Cybersecurity

Statement:

Improve cybersecurity performance through ongoing awareness of information security, vulnerabilities, and threats impacting the operating information environment, ensuring that only authorized users have access to resources and information; and the implementation of technologies and processes that reduce the risk of malware.

Overview:

The White House will focus agency efforts on improving the security of their information operations by implementing the Administration’s priority cybersecurity capabilities and developing performance based metrics to measure their success. The Administration’s priority cybersecurity capabilities are:

Information Security Continuous Monitoring Mitigation (ISCM) – Provide ongoing observation, assessment, analysis, and diagnosis of an organization’s cybersecurity: posture, hygiene, and operational readiness.
Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) – Implement a set of capabilities that ensure users must authenticate to information technology resources and have access to only those resources that are required for their job function.
Anti-Phishing & malware defense – Implement technologies, processes and training that reduce the risk of malware introduced through email and malicious or compromised web sites.

While all Federal agencies are subject to the 2002 Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requirements, The Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, Department of Commerce (National Institute of Standards and Technology), and General Services Administration play key leadership roles in developing metrics, standards, and governance processes related to the Cybersecurity CAP goal.

CROSS-AGENCY PRIORITY GOALS

Mission

Effectiveness: Deliver smarter, better, faster service to citizens

Efficiency: Maximize value of Federal spending

People and Culture: Deploy a world-class workforce and create a culture of excellence

Economic Growth: Support innovation, economic growth, and job creation

Management

Effectiveness: Deliver smarter, better, faster service to citizens

Efficiency: Maximize value of Federal spending

Economic Growth: Support innovation, economic growth, and job creation

People and Culture: Deploy a world-class workforce and create a culture of excellence