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U.S. Department of Transportation
Fiscal Year 2009 Budget In Brief

Overview

President’s Management Agenda—Organizational Excellence

With approximately 56,000 employees and hundreds of programs, DOT faces significant challenges regarding customer satisfaction, employee effectiveness, and organizational performance and productivity. The FY 2009 budget requests $1.2 billion to strengthen the management of the Department and to continue implementation of the President’s Management Agenda initiatives.

Organizational Excellence

Overall, the Secretary is improving Departmental management by ensuring that:

• All elements of the Human Capital, Competitive Sourcing, Improved Financial Management, Electronic Government, Budget and Performance Integration, Eliminating Improper Payments, and Real Property Asset Management segments of the President’s Management Agenda are accomplished.
• At least 90 percent of major Federally-funded transportation infrastructure projects meet finance plan cost estimates, with less than 2 percent annual growth, in FY 2009 through FY 2011.
• At least 90 percent of major Federally-funded transportation infrastructure projects meet schedule milestones established and reported on in operating administration finance plans, with less than 2 percent annual growth, in FY 2009 through FY 2011.

DOT’s Organizational Excellence Performance Budget is distributed as follows:

Conclusion

DOT’s goal is to provide the resources necessary to support our Nation’s transportation system. The funding requested for FY 2009 will help improve transportation safety, enhance homeland and national security, maintain and expand our transportation infrastructure and increase its capacity, reduce environmental degradation, and improve the quality of life for all citizens. The following pages provide highlights of the budget request by DOT operating administration.