PURPOSE. The NASA Performance Management System for the Senior Executive Service (SES) encourages excellence in performance, facilitates the accurate evaluation of performance based on performance results, provides for the systematic appraisal of performance, and provides a basis for pay, awards, development, retention, removal, and other personnel decisions. The system enhances the achievement of Agency goals by expecting and encouraging managerial excellence in individual and organizational performance and holding executives accountable for result. The system focuses on improved communication and goal clarity and provides for participative performance planning, setting, and communicating individual and organization goals and expectations that are linked to strategic planning initiatives and the results-oriented goals of the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, continual performance monitoring to assess achievements, and annual appraisals of performance using measures that balance organizational results with customer, employee, and stakeholder perspective.

The NASA Performance Management System for the Senior Executive Service (NGP 3435.1A) serves as an umbrella system and is applicable to all components of NASA. Within this framework, the Office of the Inspector General may create a subordinate system in order to maintain its statutory independence and more effectively meet its mission requirements within its unique organizational culture.