Performance budget congressional submission

Funding

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  The Program effectively achieves its goal of resolving cases in favor of the government. Favorable resolutions, in turn, punish and deter violations of the law; ensure the integrity of federal laws and programs; and prevent the government from losing money through unfavorable settlements or judgments.
  

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  The Program collaborates effectively with its partners, notably the U.S. Attorneys Offices. The two programs work closely to share expertise, make referrals, and designate cases for prosecution, while minimizing any overlap of responsibilities.
  

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  The Program exhibits good management practices. This includes strong financial management, collecting and using performance information to make decisions, and holding managers accountable for program performance.
  

Additionally, to exhibit continual improvement of business practices, the Program will perform these follow-up actions:

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  Seek regular, independent evaluations of the Program's effectiveness at resolving cases in favor of the government;
  

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  Establish a leadership training and mentoring program to continue improving the quality of the program's management; and
  

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  Work with the Department's Chief Information Officer to evaluate and purchase litigation software that will improve productivity and efficiency.
  

The recent actions initiated in FY 2006, but not completed by year-end are as follows:

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  In FY 2006, the Department's Justice Management Division (JMD) offered a proposal to the Management and Planning Staff (MPS) and the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to perform an independent evaluation of the GLA components (GLAs). The proposal recommended that MPS perform initial background interviews in a manner consistent with OIG yellow book regulations. MPS would later hand off their preliminary research to OIG to review and offer their findings and recommendations. However, OIG was unable to include the GLA evaluation in their FY 2007 docket, and as a result, JMD and the GLAs are currently exploring other options to meet the PART follow-up action of "Performing an independent evaluation of the GLAs."
  

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  Each of the litigating components has developed a leadership training and/or mentoring program, or is in the process of developing one. Over the course of FY 2006, the litigating components trained 318 attorneys and 219 non-attorneys after conducting 9 training sessions. Additionally, 22 new employees are enrolled in a mentoring program.
  

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  The litigating components are working jointly on a project led by the Justice Management Division (JMD) to develop a case management system with the objective of providing an efficient and effective means to track litigations handled by the Department. Each component participated in the Source Selection Evaluation Board for the system. Vendor demos were conducted and revised proposals were evaluated for vendors still in the procurement process. The Board has completed its evaluation and recommendations were sent to the selecting officials.