b/ Uncontrollable cost increases for this activity total $2,031, of which $1,217 will be budgeted and $814 will be absorbed through increased efficiencies. Program Changes for this activity total -$1,368, of which +$1,000 is an increase for Enterprise GIS; -$1,635 is a decrease to the Accessible Data Transfer (ADT), which includes a reduction of -$346 to offset funds given to the DOI Working Capital Fund for development of a DOI Enterprise Architecture; a reduction of -$103 for travel and transportation, and -$630 in streamlining savings resulting from organizational restructuring and workforce balancing. Activity Summary Introduction Science Support provides executive and managerial direction of the bureau, as well as supporting services to all USGS programs. Science Support has two components within the budget activity: Bureau Operations and Payments to the National Business Center. Federal Role Leadership - The Director serves as Chief Executive of the USGS with ultimate authority for all strategy, policy, and program decisions. This includes direct involvement in program, budget, and communications development. The Deputy Director serves as Chief Operating Officer. The Executive Leadership Team is composed of senior policy-level leaders of the bureau. It identifies issues of interest and concern to the USGS enterprise and functions as a senior advisory body to the Director and as the principal mechanism for building a bureau-centered culture. Associate Directors have oversight of national programs and interact with the regional leadership to ensure that regional needs of programs are being met. The Regional Directors are responsible for meeting regional science needs, through focus areas, integrated science centers, and other means. The bureau uses regional science programs and integrated science centers as a tool to effectively coordinate program activities in addressing regional issues. Staff offices report to the Director and provide bureau-level advice and assistance to the Director and Deputy Director. This advice includes bureauwide policy, guidance, and direction for budget formulation, execution, presentation, and advocacy with the Office of Management and Budget and Congressional Appropriations Committees; bureauwide policy, guidance, and direction for communicating information about USGS research, programs, activities, and products; liaison and close coordination between the USGS and the Congress, the Department, and other bureaus for congressional and public affairs matters; and science planning and strategy development that will result in an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to achieving the USGS mission. Science Support The Office of Administrative Policy and Services - Corporate-level support services include the essential functions of financial and fiscal management, general services and office support, security, safety and occupational health, contract negotiation and administration, grant administration, property management, and information systems management. The Chief, Office of Administrative Policy and Services, also serves as the USGS Chief Financial Officer (CFO). The Office of Human Resources provides corporate-level leadership, program direction, and staff support for human resources programs including Equal Employment Opportunity, Employee Development, Personnel Management, and Supervisory, Managerial and Leadership Development. The Office of Geographic Information (GIO) establishes bureau information policies, programs, directives, initiatives, standards, technologies, and techniques; formulates technological approaches needed to meet Department and governmentwide Information Resource Management initiatives and priorities; guides the development of strategic planning for the bureau's information programs; stimulates the use of innovative information technology (IT) solutions by shaping strategic objectives during program planning processes; directs periodic project assessments to determine progress toward completion and realizations of benefits: establishes and maintains appropriate working relationships with external organizations to ensure proper coordination of bureau information activities with other Federal, State, and private sector organizations. The bureau's Geographic Information Officer (GIO) serves as the Chief Information Officer (CIO), manages the bureau's IT investment portfolio, and is responsible for ensuring the bureau is meeting requirements of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. Bureauwide Costs - Bureauwide costs are budgeted centrally. Certain essential program support costs are relatively uncontrollable by USGS and, because of the nature of organization and billing arrangements, are more effectively and efficiently managed centrally. Bureauwide costs include payments to DOI for services provided through the Departmental Working Capital Fund and other charges such as the Annual Financial Review, Federal Lab Consortium, and Property Management Disposal System. Other bureau-level costs include payments to the Department of Labor for unemployment compensation and injury compensation, bureauwide computer system charges, human resources initiatives, and library services. Customers and Partners The Science Support Activity partners with the disciplines and regions to provide the bureaulevel support services that include communications strategy; science and strategic planning; budget formulation, execution, presentation and advocacy; human resources management; equal opportunity programs; safety and occupational health; financial management; acquisition and grant activities; security; property, supply, mail, administrative printing and publications, and transportation management; and information systems management. Science Support resources maximize the Federal investment in research by partnering with State and local organizations, private industry, and academia. The Payments to the National Business Center component funds management and support services related to the Federal Financial System (FFS), Fixed Assets and Inventory Subsystem, Interior Department Electronic Acquisition System (IDEAS), and the Procurement Data Reporting System. 324 Activity Summary The Science Support Activity funds the appropriated share of bureau-level support costs. Reimbursable customers, through a bureau assessment rate, will pay a 'fair share' of bureaulevel support costs proportionate to the reimbursements' share of USGS's total resources. Uncontrollable cost increases for this subactivity total $2,031, of which $1,217 will be budgeted and $814 will be absorbed through increased efficiencies. Program Changes for this subactivity total -$1,368, of which +$1,000 is an increase for Enterprise GIS; $1,835 is a decrease to the Accessible Data Transfer (ADT), which includes a reduction of $346 to offset funds given to the DOI Working Capital Fund for development of a DOI Enterprise Architecture; a reduction of -$103 for travel and transportation; and -$630 in streamlining savings resulting from organizational restructuring and workforce balancing. Current Program Highlights Bureau Operations promotes the orderly and efficient conduct of all USGS programs through organizational leadership, shared administrative support services, and promotion of common business practices. The President's Management Reform - The Science Support Budget Activity supports the President's Management Reform initiatives that are part of ongoing Departmentwide and governmentwide efforts to implement innovative Federal programs that promote improved financial management, competitive sourcing, strategic management of human capital, expanded electronic government; and budget and performance integration. Highlights of USGS progress on specific initiatives follow: • Financial Management Improvements - USGS has undertaken several projects to improve its financial data and processes and to implement governmentwide initiatives. USGS is implementing recent changes to the Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board's accounting standards and concepts. USGS is active in the Department of the Interior's financial management initiatives. USGS implemented the Departmentwide object class structure in its financial management system and made significant changes in its general ledger. USGS participation in these initiatives will improve its financial data and processes and provide for more timely and accurate financial reporting. USGS is also pursuing internal financial management improvement initiatives. In 326 Bureau Operations Subactivity The USGS is improving its management of fiscal resources. Initiatives include a Webbased status of funds report accessible to managers at all levels; regionalization of fiscal processes and reports; and implementation of common business practices. Competitive Sourcing - USGS established a Workforce Balance Team to provide a bureau focus to issues relating to workforce balance as well as to statutory and administrative requirements concerning competitive sourcing and the FAIR Act. The team reports to the Deputy Director and is divided into two panels (1) a Strategy Panel and (2) an Operations Panel. The two panels coordinate activities so that strategy is consistent with statutory and OMB requirements and operations reflect USGS strategy. The Workforce Balance Team also coordinates its effort with the Workforce Planning Team so that its efforts directly contribute to the overall workforce planning effort. The Workforce Balance Team implemented a Web site for FAIR Act Inventory data collection that will greatly reduce time and increase the accuracy of the inventory. The Web site provides pull down menus for guidance and consistence in the use of functional and reason codes required by OMB in completing the inventory. • Strategic Management of Human Capital - The Workforce Planning Team will implement strategies that will fit current and future workforce requirements with skills to meet today's needs and take USGS to the future. This includes having a balanced workforce with current employee and future hires. A subset of the Workforce Planning Team-the Workforce Planning Group are scientists charged with developing a plan to ensure that USGS workforce meets the need to provide exceptional science to our customers and partners. USGS leadership development program fosters leadership behaviors by all USGS employees. The development program includes two formal leadership development courses, as well as leadership elements in USGS's supervisory training programs and leadership training designed for senior managers. USGS is implementing a formal newemployee mentoring program and continuing its all-purpose informal mentoring program. USGS will implement a revamped orientation program, including leadership elements throughout the organization. The USGS will implement programs aligned with the strategic goal for a rewarding environment. USGS seeks to motivate and energize employees in the pursuit of science and business excellence, align behaviors and rewards with the USGS mission, reward and celebrate excellence, and enable the USGS to attract and retain the best and brightest employees. As part of a comprehensive bureauwide science and technology training and performance support program, USGS will offer 40 science courses/workshops, 42 technical courses/workshops and 30 cyber seminar train-the-trainer sessions during FY 2002. USGS has established goals in compliance with the "Federal Worker 2000 Initiative" to reduce overall incident rates by three percent per year, lost workdays by two percent per year, and lost time rates by ten percent per year through FY 2005. USGS will ensure that regional and field offices target safety, health, and environmental program initiatives based on an evaluation of the associated risks. USGS will focus safety program |