Ensure that releases of updated software functionality, onboarding additional customer groups, and other expansions of system capabilities for these critical programs are delivered on time and on-budget.

This performance indicator measures the number of EDA grants made to communities and regions to help build the capacity to support the manufacturing-related activities and needs of businesses.

This indicator describes a major service that ES provides to its customer base via the IT Tower -- that being full installation, maintenance (including print supplies), and repair services for a growing base of high performance printing resources located at the Department’s headquarters. The sources for these data are the Cartridges Technologies Incorporated (CTI) Systems, and the ES Tableau Data Environment.

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform (COR) grades agencies implementation of key pieces of legislation: FITARA, Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act, and Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA) based on selected scoring methodologies for areas from a wide range of options, then the COR tasks the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to collect and score the information according to the COR's direction. The Agency data sets GAO uses are generally publicly available and regularly updated and from which the COR derives an overall Bi-annual letter grade/score of: A, B, C, D or F - (0.0=F) to (4.0=A).

This indicator ensures that the Department of Commerce is accountable to the American people, and that no repeat Significant Deficiencies, formerly known as “Reportable Conditions,” (i.e., deficiencies in the design or operation of internal controls) and material weaknesses remain unaddressed.

NTIA will award grant funds for the purposes of broadband planning, deployment, and digital equity (adoption and use) programs to a multitude of entities, including (but not limited to) States/Territories,tribal governments and organizations, minority serving institutions (MSIs), non-profits.