6 FAH-5 H-430
Forward Planning Process
(CT:ICASS-48; 09-21-2015)
(Office of Origin: CGFS/ICASS)
6 FAH-5 H-431 General
(CT:ICASS-48; 09-21-2015)
(Applies to participating ICASS agencies)
The forward planning process provides information to
customer agencies to budget for their share of ICASS resources necessary to
support the ICASS management platform and to inform their annual submission to
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). 6 FAH-5 Exhibit H-431
provides the time line for the forward planning process in relationship to the
current fiscal year.
NOTE:: Since the alternate
service provider (ASP) costs remain a very small percentage of the global ICASS
budget, it is not included in this forward planning process. However during
the forward planning meeting, the ASP will raise any issues that might impact
its customers budgets.
6 FAH-5 H-432 Post Process
(CT:ICASS-48; 09-21-2015)
(Applies to participating ICASS agencies)
The service provider initiates the ICASS forward planning
process through the mission resource request (MRR). The MRR is the missions
annual resource request to the Department of State (DOS) for the budget year
(generally the fiscal year two years after the current fiscal year). In the
MRR each mission identifies its strategic priorities, goals, human and
financial resource needs that it would like to have included in the next DOS
budget request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). In the MRR, post
identifies its ICASS resource needs (staffing and infrastructure) reflective of
local issues including changes in customer agency presence or service levels. The
ICASS requests within the post MRR are reviewed and approved by the ICASS Council
and post Budget Committee (BC) before the MRR is finalized and submitted to
Washington.
6 FAH-5 H-433 Headquarters Process
(CT:ICASS-48; 09-21-2015)
(Applies to participating ICASS agencies)
a. Once the MRR is submitted to Washington, the
regional bureaus review the requests included in their posts MRRs, including
ICASS resource requests. These bureaus then identify and prioritize their
post/bureau resource requirements for inclusion in their annual bureau resource
request (BRR) submission to the Bureau of Budget and Planning (BP). Like the
MRR, the BRR is the Bureaus annual resource request and informs the
Departments request to OMB.
b. BP reviews all the BRR submissions and, in
consultation with the Undersecretary for Management, the Deputy Secretary for
Management and Resources, and the Secretary of State, establishes an
appropriate resource level for the Department of States annual budget request
to OMB. Based on this review, BP develops a notional global ICASS forward
planning funding level for ICASS. This funding level is the forward planning
figure that is presented to the ICASS Working Group (IWG) at the annual ICASS
forward planning meeting. In advance of the forward planning meeting, BP
provides the presentation information to the ISC for distribution to customer
agencies. The forward planning figure is exclusive of costs related to
unpredictable events or factors such as adjustments in exchange rates or
changes in the security environment.
c. The forward planning notional funding level can be
used by all agencies to support ICASS increases or decreases when preparing
their respective OMB budget submissions. BP keeps the IWG informed of
significant emerging events that may impact the forward planning process.
6 FAH-5 H-434 through H-439 unassigned
6 FAH-5 Exhibit H-431
Forward Planning Time line
(CT:ICASS-48; 09-21-2015)
(Applies to participating ICASS agencies)
