The Office of Foreign Assistance performs three core functions. First, it coordinates the formulation of future USAID and State Department foreign assistance budget requests—a process that begins two years before the start of a fiscal year. Second, it manages the execution of the current fiscal year’s aid budgets for State and USAID, ensuring that obligations align with the State and Foreign Operations spending measure and its many embedded congressional directives and administration objectives. Third, it collects and analyzes performance and outcome data associated with past foreign assistance budgets.