Performance Goal 1.1.1.1: Demonstrate and transfer to users integrated systems.

Performance Goal 1.1.1.2: Demonstrate and transfer to users computer-based simulation models and decision-support systems.

Performance Goal 1.1.2.1: Demonstrate techniques to control or eliminate postharvest insects and diseases, and increase market quality and product longevity.

Performance Goal 1.1.2.2: Demonstrate technologies to control quarantine pests.

Performance Goal 1.1.2.3: New and improved diagnostic tests are developed and available.

Performance Goal 1.1.3.1: Demonstrate postharvest technologies that add value and improve quality.

Performance Goal 1.1.3.2: Provide knowledge and technology to expand and improve the grading systems for agricultural commodities and products.

Performance Goal 1.1.3.3: Demonstrate methods to measure the critical processing and end-use properties of agricultural commodities important to the agricultural marketing system and the processing industry.

Performance Goal 1.1.4.1: Strategic alliances formed with specific foreign institutions, leading to the joint development of germplasm and value-added technologies, mutually protected through intellectual property agreements.

Performance Goal 1.2.1.1: Experimentally demonstrate the production of new, improved, and alternative crops and horticultural products with potential for successful introduction and demonstrate the successful operation of aquaculture systems.

Performance Goal 1.2.1.2: Experimentally demonstrate new and improved production, harvest, and postharvest handling procedures of these crops.

Performance Goal 1.2.2.1: Experimentally demonstrate improvements in processing technologies and develop new bioproducts and uses that have potential to increase demand for agricultural commodities.

Performance Goal 2.1.1.1: Demonstrate increases in productivity above current levels using sustainable technologies.

Performance Goal 2.1.1.2: Demonstrate a more efficient and cost-effective use of resource inputs while increasing productivity above current levels.

Performance Goal 2.1.2.1: Demonstrate new integrated technologies to protect plants, animals, and ecosystems.

Performance Goal 2.1.3.1: Collections of well-documented germplasm of importance to U.S. agricultural security are readily available to scientists and breeders for research and development.

Performance Goal 2.1.3.2: Documented DNA base sequences of agricultural importance.

Performance Goal 2.1.3.3: Release of improved germplasm, varieties, and breeds based on effective use of genetic resources.

Performance Goal 2.1.3.4: Improve methods for identifying useful properties of plants, animals, and other organisms, and for manipulating the genes associated with these properties.

Performance Goal 2.1.4.1: Make technologies available for improving productivity, safety, and quality, and the security of the agricultural production system.

Performance Goal 3.1.1.1: Indicators of function determined and related to diet and health.

Performance Goal 3.1.2.1: Transfer new measurement techniques and data to users, release results of surveys, and disseminate effective nutrition intervention strategies.

Performance Goal 3.1.3.1: Demonstrate improved nutritional quality.

Performance Goal 4.1.1.1: Demonstrate concepts and on-farm agricultural technologies and management practices that maintain and enhance the environment and natural resource base.

Performance Goal 4.1.1.2: Experimentally demonstrate the appropriateness of watershed-scale technologies and practices that protect the environment and natural resources.

Performance Goal 4.1.2.1: Documentation of agriculture's effects on the global environment.

Performance Goal 4.1.2.2: Documentation of how changes in the global environment affect agriculture.

Performance Goal 4.1.3.1: Demonstrate cropland and grazingland management strategies that improve productivity and efficiency of croplands and grazinglands.

Performance Goal 4.2.1.1: Risk-reduction strategies and methods transferred to the Nation's agricultural industry.

Performance Goal 4.2.2.1: Improve strategies and technologies that reduce the effects of extreme weather variability.

Performance Goal 4.3.1.1: Deliver integrated pest management strategies that are cost-effective and protect natural resources, human health, and the environment.

Performance Goal 4.3.2.1: Demonstrate the effectiveness of integrated agricultural production systems in the improvement of natural resources and protection of the environment.

Performance Goal 4.3.2.2: Provide computer-based models and decision-support systems to farmers, public agencies, and private organizations.

Performance Goal 4.3.3.1: Demonstrate technologies to store, mix, compost, inoculate, incubate, and apply wastes to obtain consistent economic benefits while at the same time minimizing environmental degradation, nutrient loss, and noxious odors.

Performance Goal 4.3.3.2: Demonstrate the conversion of agricultural waste into liquid fuels and industrial feedstocks.

Performance Goal 5.1.1.1: Experimentally demonstrate the successful operation of small-scale production and processing systems, evaluate small-scale animal production systems, and enhance high value agricultural products.

Performance Goal 5.1.2.1: Make information on ARS research results and inventions available electronically via the Internet and similar resources.

Performance Goal 5.1.2.2: Provide more cost-effective and efficient public information and technology transfer.

Performance Goal 5.1.2.3: Research programs include information and technology transfer considerations.

Performance Goal 5.1.3.1: Provide small businesses with contacts and information on the programs available from public and private sources.

Performance Goal 5.1.3.2: Expand the types of agreements used by ARS and delegate signatory authority to the lowest feasible level.

Enhance the Competitiveness of United States Agriculture'.

Agricultural Information through the Programs of the National Agricultural Library (NAL)'.

Performance Goal 2.1.1: Implemented selection guidelines for the electronic resources to be acquired and used by NAL.

Performance Goal 2.1.2: Expanded representation of electronic formats such as Internet resources, online databases, and digital documents in AGRICOLA and NAL's online catalog.

Performance Goal 2.1.3: A gateway is provided to a large body of electronic information on agriculture over a network such as the Internet.

Performance Goal 2.1.4: Demonstrate increased use of agricultural information by institutions of higher education.

Performance Goal 2.2.1: The time for processing requests for services and delivering the information requested is further reduced.

Performance Goal 2.2.2: The gap between the time that information is published and made available in NAL-produced databases is further reduced.

Performance Goal 2.2.3: Expanded provision of Internet and other technology-related training programs for NAL customers.

Performance Goal 2.3.1: Establishment of a national archive for agricultural literature that serves as a centralized storage facility for archival copies prepared by cooperators in the program.

Performance Goal 2.3.2: Development of a program for monitoring quality of electronically archived materials to ensure that the data remain accessible.

Performance Goal 3.1.1: The annual performance plan is delivered on time.

Performance Goal 3.1.2: Meet REE deadlines for submission of material for inclusion in the Coordinated Research Agenda.

Performance Goal 3.1.3: Annual conferences of public and private individuals are convened to discuss major researchable issues in agriculture and to articulate approaches to addressing these problems.

Performance Goal 3.1.4: Rapid responses to crises.

Performance Goal 3.2.1: Written policies and guidance to facilitate implementation of the Civil Rights program.

Performance Goal 3.2.2: Improve all aspects of the Title VII program which includes EEO training, data collection, and monitoring and evaluation.

Performance Goal 3.3.1: Partnerships are established.

Performance Goal 3.3.2: Procedures are implemented.

Performance Goal 3.3.3: Outside support increases.

Performance Goal 3.4.1: Improved customer satisfaction.

Performance Goal 3.4.2: Customer needs are identified.

Performance Goal 3.5.1: Criteria and priorities identified.

Performance Goal 3.6.1: Identify core capability requirements and develop a scientific staff to meet long-term research needs.

Performance Goal 3.6.2: Establish a database of ARS experts by discipline and research areas of expertise.

Performance Goal 3.6.3: Train 1,300 postdoctoral students, and competitively select 10 percent to fill full-time positions.

Performance Goal 3.7.1: Customer participation in planning processes.

Performance Goal 3.7.2: Strategic Plan is developed and communicated to REE customers.

Performance Goal 3.8.1: Internal and external peer reviews are conducted on all research projects before implementation.

Performance Goal 3.8.2: Review of the productivity, quality, and impact of individual scientists as scheduled in the Research Position Evaluation System (RPES).

Performance Goal 3.8.3: Program reviews are conducted periodically, and programs are sustained or redirected as appropriate.

Performance Goal 3.9.1: Implement integrated management systems in USDA.

Performance Goal 3.9.2: Correct in a timely manner internal control deficiencies.

Performance Goal 3.9.3: Make available reliable cost accounting information.

Performance Goal 3.9.4: Clean and timely audit opinions are provided on audited financial statements.