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NOAA's new Office of Program Planning and Integration (PPI) is the product of one of the most important and creative recommendations of the NOAA Program Review June 2002. The NOAA Program Review Task Force (PRT) recognized the fact that the management system and structure then in place at NOAA was not the best possible for addressing the challenges of NOAA's future missions. The PRT further concluded that a major reorganization which would merge Line Offices along mission or functional lines also would prove neither cost-beneficial nor generate a unified organization. Instead, the PRT proposed an organizational structure and management process which modifies NOAA headquarters, while improving NOAA's corporate decision-making processes. Specifically targeted are those processes that are most necessary to support the Budget and Performance Integration Initiative of the President's Management Agenda. It was determined that significant improvements in NOAA's corporate decision process would be achieved by the introduction of matrix management and the establishment of a NOAA-wide requirements-based management process linked with the planning, programming and budgeting processes. Primary support and responsibility would be vested in the newly-created Office of Program Planning and Integration led by an Assistant Administrator. As a result, NOAA's Office of Strategic Planning (OSP) reports directly to the Office of Program Planning and Integration (PPI). OSP is responsible for developing and revising the Strategic Plan, maintaining an inventory of all existing plans on NOAA components and planning efforts occuring in the Agency, and ensuring that all plans and efforts are aligned with NOAA's mission and mandates. The application of Matrix Management to NOAA's organization and programs is the foundation for the structural changes in NOAA that have been initiated in the past several months. It is also the driver for fundamental program and project management changes that reflect the transition of NOAA to a more corporate and integrated organization. To date, the following programs are officially designated as matrix managed:
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