Summary The Bureau of Budget and Planning carries out the principal responsibilities of preparing and submitting the Department's budget requests, managing the Department's operational resource requirements, and ensuring that operational planning and performance management is synchronized with the Department's resource requirements. BP also coordinates with the Office of U.S. Foreign Assistance Resources in developing policies, plans, and programs to achieve foreign policy goals. Responsibilities Advises program and other managers of the necessity for and type of budgetary action to be implemented to meet their particular programmatic requirements. Develops proposals concerning alternative methods, sources, and timing of financing for substantive programs and devises and applies criteria for evaluating the progress and cost effectiveness of accomplishing program plans, goals, and objectives. Plans, organizes, coordinates and carries out annual and multi-year budgeting in support of ass...