Office of Management and Budget

We lead national budget processes, including execution, development, formulation, and performance reporting for NOAA Fisheries.

We provide advice, support, and guidance in the following areas:

• Administrative processes and planning.
• Budget formulation and execution.
• Strategic planning.
• Performance management.
• Facility management.
• Grants coordination.
• Fisheries Loan programs.
• Acquisitions.

Specifically, we coordinate and advise NOAA Fisheries Assistant Administrator and Executive Board on the following:

• Agency-wide program goals, objectives, and measures of accomplishment.
• Effective and efficient use of resources among the financial management centers.
• National planning and development efforts, ensuring that the appropriate internal and external stakeholders are involved.
• Programs to improve access to capital, compensate fishermen for conflicting ocean uses, and provide funding for external research and development.
• Administrative operations, such as correspondence, foreign travel operations, and responses and reporting to the Inspector General and Government Accounting Office reviews/investigations.
• Oversight of infrastructure issues, grants programs, policy development, and administrative appeals.