NOAA Budget Office
NOAA Budget Execution Division (BEX)
NOAA's
Budget Execution Division (BEX) has
overall responsibility for fiscal accountability
and reporting
of appropriated resources, allocating funding,
tracking and reporting spending, providing information
to formulation, maintaining of official fiscal
records for NOAA including monthly, quarterly
and annual internal and external reports. BEX
exists to ensure NOAA’s execution stage (current
fiscal year planning and obligating of the budget)
is in compliance with all applicable OMB-Circulars.
The program ensures proper quarterly apportionment's
are submitted and approved by OMB and allotment
of funds are in accordance with approved apportionment's
for NOAA’s budgetary resources. BEX tracks
and reports current year data for all internal
NOAA customers, and external customers, such as
DoC and Congress. NOAA’s Table of Organization
is the responsibility of BEX and is used by NOAA
management for the tracking of approved on-board
positions. BEX also supports CBS implementation
of upgrades and new modules. All NOAA policies
and procedures for Budget Execution are created
and approved by BEX before implementation NOAA-wide.
In addition, BEX is the "E" in PPBES
(Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution
System).
James LeDuc
Chief, Budget Execution Division
Phone: (202) 482- 3939