Does NRCS have an Accountability System?
A. NRCS has a newly implemented Integrated Accountability System that brings together information about strategic, performance, and business planning; budgeting and cost accounting; workforce analysis, management, and planning; natural resource concerns identification; performance plans, outcomes, and reports; agency operations. NRCS’s Integrated Accountability System (IAS) is a set of data collection tools, processes, and related applications that provide information in a timely manner to support the agencys strategic and performance planning and monitoring, budget formulation, business planning, operations management, workforce planning, and accountability activities. The focus of the IAS is to collect high quality information with minimal burden on the field, to ensure consistency nationwide in the data collected, and to make the information accessible to those who need it in a timely manner. Access to IAS data is managed through a security model that protects internal or sensitive
