Appendix-A-Major-Recommendations--By-Agency DEPARTMENT-OF-HOUSING-AND-URBAN-DEVELOPMENT HUD01 Reinvent Public Housing HUD should create pilot programs to devolve greater authority over housing funds to sound local agencies. It should create demonstrations of mixed-income public housing with portable subsidies. HUD should also streamline public housing rules and take other steps to improve public housing management. cbe cbe HUD02 Improve Multi-Family Asset Management and Disposition HUD should use public-private partnerships to manage and sell HUD-held loans and real estate for non-subsidized housing projects. Congress should reduce restrictions on HUD sale of multi-family properties, including use of portable subsidies for tenants when the Secretary determines that to be best for tenant needs. na na HUD03 Improve Single-Family Asset Management and Disposition HUD should use a combination of early assistance to borrowers having financial difficulties, contract loan servicing, contract mortgage assistance programs and public-private partnerships to streamline and improve management of HUD- assigned single-family mortgages. na na HUD04 Create an Assisted-Housing/Rent Subsidy Demonstration Project HUD should be authorized to experiment in negotiated restructuring of privately owned assisted-housing projects to improve management, promote mixed-income housing and save taxpayer funds. na na HUD05 Establish a New Housing Production Program HUD should stimulate housing production through FHA risk-sharing arrangements with housing finance agencies, stimulate a secondary market for multi-family properties, improve access to FHA insurance for first-time home buyers, provide special FHA programs to revitalize neighborhoods and improve FHA management. na na HUD06 Streamline HUD Field Operations HUD should streamline its Washington, regional and field office structure and consolidate and reduce its size over time. -167.0 0.0 HUD07 Refinance Section 235 Mortgages HUD should use incentive contracts to speed savings from refinancing expensive old mortgages subsidized by HUD. -210.0 0.0 HUD08 Reduce Section 8 Contract Rent Payments HUD should modify its process to reduce unjustified increases in annual payments to Section 8 projects. -225.0 0.0 HUD09 Consolidate Section 8 Certificates and Vouchers This recommendation would consolidate two overlapping projects to eliminate duplication. cbe cbe HUD10 Reduce Operating Subsidies for Vacancies This recommendation would encourage public housing agencies to make better use of their assets by reducing subsidies paid for unjustifiably vacant units. cbe cbe INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY INTEL01 Enhance Intelligence Community Integration The end of the Cold War and the constrained fiscal environment in the U.S. create an imperative for the 13 components of the Intelligence Community to act more effectively and more efficiently as a team. * * [As a footnote: *The Intelligence Community budget is classified. Savings from these recommendations cannot be shown in this report.] INTEL02 Enhance Community Responsiveness to Customers A 40-year emphasis on the Soviet Union allowed the Intelligence Community to develop a repertoire which was not dependent on a close relationship with its customers. That is no longer the case today, and NPR makes recommendations for improvements in this area. * * [As a footnote: *The Intelligence Community budget is classified. Savings from these recommendations cannot be shown in this report.] INTEL03 Reassess Information Collection to Meet New Analytical Challenges The analytical issues the Intelligence Community faces are far more diverse and complex today, requiring new focus and new techniques to meet the intelligence needs of policymakers. * * [As a footnote: *The Intelligence Community budget is classified. Savings from these recommendations cannot be shown in this report.] INTEL04 Integrate Intelligence Community Information Management Systems The Intelligence Community lacks the connectivity and interoperability in its information systems to do its job efficiently and effectively. * * [As a footnote: *The Intelligence Community budget is classified. Savings from these recommendations cannot be shown in this report.] INTEL05 Develop Integrated Personnel and Training Systems This recommendation focuses on organizational development and training issues within the Intelligence Community. * * [As a footnote: *The Intelligence Community budget is classified. Savings from these recommendations cannot be shown in this report.] INTEL06 Merge the President's Intelligence Oversight Board with the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board The roles of these two oversight bodies are sufficiently similar that small savings and some efficiencies can be achieved by combining them. * * [As a footnote: *The Intelligence Community budget is classified. Savings from these recommendations cannot be shown in this report.] INTEL07 Improve Support to Ground Troops During Combat Operations Numerous studies of intelligence support during the Gulf War focused on agency or service-specific support issues. This issue outlines a reinvention lab effort which proposes an integrated approach to studying support to ground forces during combat operations. * * [As a footnote: *The Intelligence Community budget is classified. Savings from these recommendations cannot be shown in this report.]