NOAA
is challenged to provide increasingly accurate and reliable environmental
and ecological information and services to meet the demands of
society.
These information services and stewardship responsibilities must
recognize the connectivity that exists across various social
and economic scales from local
to global, and between the atmosphere, the oceans, and land.
To
meet this challenge, NOAA needs to work closely with stakeholders
and domestic and international partners at every level to bring
all its talent, resources, and capabilities together in a unified
manner. These efforts are facilitated by the Office of Program
Planning and Integration (PPI), which was established in June
2002 as the focus for a new corporate management culture at NOAA.
PPI was created to address the need to:
- Foster
strategic management among NOAA Line and Staff Offices, Goal
Teams, Programs, and Councils,
- Support
planning activities through greater opportunities for active
participation of employees, stakeholders, and partners,
- Build
decision support systems based on the goals and outcomes set
in NOAA’s strategic plan, and
- Guide
managers and employees on program and performance management,
the National Environmental Policy Act, and socioeconomic analysis.
Vision
PPI is driven toward the ideal of one NOAA working together, guided
by a clear strategic vision for planning, programming, and
execution to achieve NOAA’s
goals. Mission
The path to this ideal can only be realized through organizational
leadership. PPI was created to lead the implementation of NOAA’s
Strategic Vision through four fundamental responsibilities:
- Developing
and evolving of NOAA’s Strategic Plan,
- Managing designated
programs according to matrix principles,
- Promoting the development
of effective programs by integrating knowledge,
talent, and resources across NOAA, and
- Integrating social science
and environmental policy analyses into decision making.
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