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The Department of Defense provides the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of our country. The Department plays a critical role in defending and advancing the safety and security of American citizens and interests. The Department’s $1.21 trillion in budgetary resources ensures the operation of the Army, Navy, and Air Force amongst many other organizations. Like other agencies, it is committed to pursuing this important mission while managing its finances effectively, which includes ensuring its payments are accurate, using only property it needs, and accounting for its finances properly.

The Department of Energy serves to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States, promote scientific and technological innovation in support of that mission and ensure the environmental cleanup of the national nuclear weapons complex. The Department’s $67.7 billion in budgetary resources are used to promote energy security, nuclear security, scientific discovery and innovation, and environmental responsibility. Like other agencies, it is committed to pursuing this important mission while managing its finances effectively, which includes ensuring its payments are accurate, using only property it needs, and accounting for its finances properly.

The Department of Health and Human Services serves to enhance the health and well-being of Americans by fostering sustained advances in the sciences, underlying medicine, public health, and social services. The Department’s $1.25 trillion in budgetary resources ensures the operation of the Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Institutes of Health, and Administration for Children and Families amongst many other organizations. Like other agencies, it is committed to pursuing this important mission while managing its finances effectively, which includes ensuring its payments are accurate, using only property it needs, and accounting for its finances properly.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development serves to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality, affordable homes for all. The Department’s $151 billion in budgetary resources ensures the operation of the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, Office of Public and Indian Housing, Government National Mortgage Association, Office of Community Planning and Development, the Federal Housing Administration, and other program offices. Like other agencies, it is committed to pursuing this important mission while managing its finances effectively, which includes ensuring its payments are accurate, using only property it needs, and accounting for its finances properly.

The Department of Justice serves to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law, to ensure public safety against threats foreign and domestic, to provide federal leadership in preventing and controlling crime, to seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior, and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans. The Department’s $42.8 billion in budgetary resources ensures the operation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Prisons, Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Marshals Service, and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives amongst many other organizations. Like other agencies, it is committed to pursuing this important mission while managing its finances effectively, which includes ensuring its payments are accurate, using only property it needs, and accounting for its finances properly.

The Department of State mission is to shape and sustain a peaceful, prosperous, just and democratic world and foster conditions for stability and progress for the benefit of the American people and people everywhere. The Department’s $52.5 billion in budgetary resources ensures the operation of more than 270 embassies, consulates, and other posts worldwide as well as numerous regional, functional and management bureaus. The Department of State is committed to pursuing this important mission while managing its finances effectively, which includes ensuring accurate payments, effective utilization of property, and sound financial accounting procedures.

The Department of the Treasury serves to promote economic prosperity and ensure the financial security of the United States. The Department is responsible for a wide range of activities such as advising the President on economic and financial issues, encouraging sustainable economic growth, and fostering improved governance in financial institutions. The Department of the Treasury also operates and maintains systems that are critical to the nation's financial infrastructure, such as the production of coin and currency, the disbursement of payments to the American public, revenue collection, and the borrowing of funds necessary to run the federal government. The Department’s $312.2 billion in net cost of operations for fiscal year 2010 ensured the operation of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, United States Mint, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and Internal Revenue Service amongst many other organizations. Like other agencies, it is committed to pursuing this important mission while managing its finances effectively, which includes ensuring its payments are accurate, using only property it needs, and accounting for its finances properly.

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) uses its expertise to provide innovative solutions for the federal government agencies in support of their missions while it fosters an effective, sustainable, and transparent government for the American people. The agency plays a key role in developing and implementing administrative policies that affect all government agencies by providing a foundation to achieve a Zero Environmental Footprint. The agency has a history of leadership in energy conservation, sustainable building design, and sourcing environmentally-preferable products and services. GSA provides office space to over one million federal employees in over 9,600 federal buildings and leases. In FY 2009, the agency offered over 12 million products and services to other federal agencies with $34.5 billion in budgetary resources. Like other agencies, GSA is committed to pursuing this important mission while managing its finances effectively. This includes ensuring that all financial and accounting transactions are accurate and transparent.

The National Science Foundation serves to promote the progress of science, to advance national health, prosperity and welfare, and to secure the national defense. The agency’s $8.0 billion in budgetary resources is used to support high-risk, potentially transformative research that will generate important discoveries, new technologies, and a dynamic workforce. Like other agencies, it is committed to pursuing this important mission while managing its finances effectively, which includes ensuring its payments are accurate, using only property it needs, and accounting for its finances properly.

The Small Business Administration acts as a direct lender or guarantor of small business loans and provides management and technical assistance and contracting opportunities to small businesses. The agency also provides disaster assistance to communities that have undergone catastrophes with the intention of rebuilding the devastated economy and community simultaneously. Of the agency's $18 billion total budgetary resources in FY 2010, $8.4 billion is used to support financial assistance, management and technical assistance, disaster assistance and regulatory assistance; and $10 billion is non-budgetary resources including borrowing authority and collections of loan principal, and interest and fees in financing funds. Like other agencies, it is committed to pursuing this important mission while managing its finances effectively, which includes ensuring its payments are accurate, using only property it needs, and accounting for its finances properly.