executive agency

(noun)

A permanent or semi-permanent organization in the machinery of government that is responsible for the oversight and administration of specific functions.

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Examples of executive agency in the following topics:

  • Independent Agencies

    • Independent executive agencies operate as regulatory and service agencies to oversee federal government functions.
    • The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is an example of an executive agency, and acts as an outpost of the executive government to regulate communications technology and media in the U.S.
    • In the United States federal government, Congress and the President have the ability to delegate authority to independent executive agencies, sometimes called federal agencies or administrative agencies.
    • However, executive agencies have to remain nonpartisan.
    • The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is one of many independent executive agencies.

  • Making Policy

    • The executive and legislative branches of the United States pass and enforce laws.
    • However, the actual development and implementation of policies are under the purview of different bureaucratic institutions mainly comprised cabinet departments, independent executive agencies, government corporations, and regulatory agencies.
    • The remaining government organizations within the executive branch outside of the presidency are independent executive agencies.
    • Some agencies, such as the U.S.
    • Differentiate between cabinet departments, independent executive agencies, government corporation, and regulatory agencies in making policy

  • The Bureaucracy

    • The Department was created in 1789 and was the first executive department established.
    • The Department of Defense (also known as the Defense Department, USDOD, DOD, DoD or the Pentagon) is the executive department of the U.S. government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government concerned directly with national security and the U.S. armed forces.
    • The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an independent civilian intelligence agency of the U.S. government.
    • It is an executive agency that reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence with responsibility for providing national security intelligence assessments to senior U.S. policymakers.
    • The State Department is one bureaucratic agency that shapes U.S. foreign policy

  • Regulating Executive Branch Lobbyists

    • Lobbying the Executive Branch is similar to any other branch of the U.S. government and is regulated by laws pertaining to disclosure.
    • Complexity encouraged more specialized lobbying, often with more than one agency affected by any one piece of legislation.
    • Executive branch agencies added a new layer of rule-making to congressional legislation.
    • However, it is true that many executive branch agencies have the power to write specific rules and are a target of lobbying.
    • Federal agencies, like the State Department, make rules to give aid money to countries like Egypt.

  • Preparing the Budget

    • The Office of Management and Budget is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President.
    • It is also responsible, later, for administering that budget to executive branch agencies.
    • The OMB also assesses competing funding demands among agencies in order to decide upon funding priorities.
    • OMB staff provide the Executive Office of the President with vital continuity, because they are among the several hundred career professionals that remain in their positions regardless of which party occupies the White House.
    • Staff members from these offices are assigned to monitor federal agencies or topical areas, like issues associated with U.S.

  • The Oversight Function

    • The United States Congress has oversight of the Executive Branch and other U.S. federal agencies.
    • Congressional oversight refers to oversight by the United States Congress of the Executive Branch, including the numerous U.S. federal agencies.
    • Congressional oversight is the review, monitoring, and supervision of federal agencies, programs, activities, and policy implementation.
    • The government's charter does not explicitly grant Congress the authority to conduct inquiries or investigations of the executive, to have access to records or materials held by the executive, or to issue subpoenas for documents or testimony from the executive.
    • Some of the most publicized are the comparatively rare investigations by select committees into major scandals or executive branch operations gone awry.

  • Sunshine Laws

    • The act explicitly applies only to executive branch government agencies.
    • These agencies are under several mandates to comply with public solicitation of information.
    • Along with making public and accessible all bureaucratic and technical procedures for applying for documents from that agency, agencies are also subject to penalties for hindering the process of a petition for information.
    • Executive Office of the President, et al., the White House used the PROFS computer communications software.
    • Summarize the obligations that the Freedom of Information Act places on executive branch government agencies

  • Executive Orders

    • In the United States, an executive order is an order or directive issued by the head of the executive branch at some level of government.
    • In the United States, an executive order is an order or directive issued by the head of the executive branch at some level of government.
    • The term executive order is most commonly applied to orders issued by the President, who is the head of the executive branch of the federal government.
    • Presidents have issued executive orders since 1789, usually to help officers and agencies of the executive branch manage the operations within the federal government itself.
    • Compare and contrast the different types of executive orders made by the President

  • Regulatory Commissions

    • Independent regulatory agencies create and enforce regulations to protect the public at large.
    • An independent regulatory agency is separate from the other branches of the federal government.
    • These agencies are within the purview of the executive branch of government, but are internally regulated rather than subject to the direct control of the President.
    • To better understand how independent regulatory agencies function, let us consider the U.S.
    • Use the work of the FDA as an example to describe the activity and mission of regulatory agencies more broadly

  • Managing Strategy

    • The area of marketing agency management (i.e., working with external marketing agencies and suppliers) uses techniques such as agency performance evaluation, scope of work, incentive compensation, and storage of agency information in a supplier database.
    • In many cases, marketing management will develop a marketing plan to specify how the company will execute the chosen strategy and achieve the business's objectives.
    • Effective execution may require management of both internal resources and a variety of external vendors and service providers, such as the firm's advertising agency.
    • The area of marketing agency management (i.e., working with external marketing agencies and suppliers) uses techniques such as agency performance evaluation, scope of work, incentive compensation, RFXs, and storage of agency information in a supplier database.
    • Managing your marketing strategy might also mean managing external vendors such as advertising agencies.