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 116 STAT. 1238 PUBLIC LAW 107-217—AUG. 21, 2002 (f) USE OF BEST PRACTICES IN ACQUISITIONS.— The Director shall encourage the heads of the executive agencies to develop and use the best practices in the acquisition of information technology. (g) ASSESSMENT OF OTHER MODELS FOR MANAGING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. —On a continuing basis, the Director shall assess the experiences of executive agencies, state and local governments, international organizations, and the private sector in managing information technology. (h) COMPARISON OF AGENCY USES OF INFORMATION TECH- NOLOGY.— The Director shall compare the performances of the executive agencies in using information technology and shall disseminate the comparisons to the heads of the executive agencies. (i) MONITORING TRAINING.— The Director shall monitor the development and implementation of training in information resources management for executive agency personnel. (j) INFORMING CONGRESS. —The Director shall keep Congress fully informed on the extent to which the executive agencies are improving the performance of agency programs and the accomplishment of the agency missions through the use of the best practices in information resources management. (k) COORDINATION OF POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND REVIEW. — The Director shall coordinate with the Office of Federal Procurement Policy the development and review by the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of policy associated with federal acquisition of information technology. § 11303. Performance-based and results-based management (a) IN GENERAL. —The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall encourage the use of performance-based and resultsbased management in fulfilling the responsibilities assigned under section 3504(h) of title 44. (b) EVALUATION OF AGENCY PROGRAMS AND INVESTMENTS. — (1) REQUIREMENT.—The Director shall evaluate the information resources management practices of the executive agencies with respect to the performance and results of the investments made by the executive agencies in information technology. (2) DIRECTION FOR EXECUTIVE AGENCY ACTION.—The Director shall issue to the head of each executive agency clear and concise direction that the head of each agency shall— (A) establish effective and efficient capital planning processes for selecting, managing, and evaluating the results of all of its major investments in information systems; (B) determine, before making an investment in a new information system— (i) whether the function to be supported by the system should be performed by the private sector and, if so, whether any component of the executive agency performing that function should be converted from a governmental organization to a private sector organization; or (ii) whether the function should be performed by the executive agency and, if so, whether the function should be performed by a private sector source under contract or by executive agency personnel; (C) analyze the missions of the executive agency and, based on the analysis, revise the executive agency's mission-related processes and administrative processes, as

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