One of the primary ideas of the BFELoB is to help prepare for and foster the “Budget Office of the Future” through initiatives, tools and services in four major areas: Improving Budget Processes, Developing Human Capital, making use of Enabling Technology, which will help agencies produce high quality Budget Products.

Among the Tools and Services provided by the BFELoB are:

A simple, survey-like method to assess how current agency operations and processes compare against best practices across a broad range of budgeting capability categories including Budget Processes, Staffing Capacity, Technology and Budget Products.

An assessment of nine automated budget formulation/execution systems rated against a compendium of budgeting capabilities.

Maps representing the federal budget formulation process.

Maps representing the federal budget execution process.

The Touchpoints document clarifies where Budget Execution and Financial Management processes intersect and discusses opportunities for process improvement in the flow of information between these two sectors.

Provides information on major Competencies in the budget field, as well as Proficiencies and Key Behaviors at different stages of one's career.

An on-line, multi-media training module intended to provide a basic understanding of budget execution for beginning budget analysts.

Narrated presentations explaining a variety of budget-related topics.

Numerous opportunities for free training on a variety of subjects. Thousands have already attended BFELoB training sessions.

The BFELoB has worked with multiple agencies in transitioning their agency focused budget system to shared service offering, providing other agencies with a way to access budget system functionality by leveraging their investments.

A data collection and publishing tool which can produce fully indexed, electronic briefing books, Q&As, QFRs and more, and can be coupled with capabilities for Analytics and reporting.

Identify, customize and implement collection of Best of Breed Open Format & Open Source reporting solutions to meet the reporting needs of the Budget community.

Document publication tools that automatically integrate numbers and text.

A collaboration/wiki/knowledge management capability optimized for Federal user requirements.

Real-time computer screen sharing, enabling remotely-located meeting attendees to be literally 'on the same page' as the presenter.

A robust, secure technology platform which includes login provisioning ("authentication" and "authorization"), database, server, and agile application development.

Provide “authentication as a service” to applications/information systems, working through the MAX Federal Community. The first HSPD-12 implementation in the Government used this service.

A Budget Segment architecture document is available to agencies to use as a template to simplify and jump-start their system development and enterprise architecture activities. This template follows the Federal Segment Architecture Methodology (FSAM).