ATF's fiscal years (FY) 2024-2028 strategic plan comprises the efforts and commitment of all of ATF to create an actionable roadmap to continue the Nation’s fight to disrupt violent crime. ATF is focused on ensuring there is a strong infrastructure in place to prepare for a rapidly changing environment, and the ability to respond to challenges that lay ahead.

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Strategic Goal 1: Achieve Operational Excellence and Agility

Strategic Objective: Fully integrate intelligence and investigative work to meet the needs of current and future violent crime trends.

1. Create and cultivate an ATF culture that focuses on maximum impact on fighting violent crime by embracing data-driven, intelligence-led enforcement and regulatory activities.
2. Maximize research, cooperation, and innovation to identify emerging trends and new technologies involving violent crime and the regulated industry.
3. Expand the National Crime Gun Intelligence Center of Excellence.
4. Expand the use of Crime Gun Intelligence tools.

Strategic Goal 2: Foster a Responsive Workforce That Is Future-Focused

Strategic Objective: Maintain a high-performing inclusive culture that is knowledgeable of teamwork, drives the most creative and effective solutions, and meets the needs of the communities and stakeholders we serve.

1. Conduct comprehensive workforce planning by institutionalizing an enterprise-wide staffing strategy that can meet changes in external and internal demands.
2. Expand ATF’s capacity to efficiently recruit, retain, and place a diverse and qualified workforce that represents the public we serve.
3. Evolve a supportive culture that is inclusive of diverse thoughts, backgrounds, ideas, and shares institutional knowledge.
4. Improve succession planning and organizational consistency.
5. Ensure compensation and performance systems set fair and clear expectations for the employee evaluation and promotion process.

Strategic Goal 3: Drive Effective Organizational Communication

Strategic Objective: Improve internal and external stakeholder communication through a user-centered design to drive mission awareness and promote knowledge management and sharing of resources, capabilities, and initiatives.

1. Standardize and improve internal communication for efficient and effective information sharing.
2. Standardize and expand external communication and transparency to promote information sharing and facilitate engagement.
3. Engage legislators and policy makers on laws and regulations enforced by ATF with an emphasis concerning current and emerging gun violence and firearms trafficking.

Strategic Goal 4: Optimize the Business Environment

Strategic Objective: Leverage innovative technologies, tools, and procedures to optimize and digitally transform the business environment to improve how ATF operates.

1. Decrease processing times to accelerate ATF service delivery.
2. Optimize ATF-wide data and technology modernization, process reengineering, user-focused applications, and trend analysis to further our mission.
3. Use consistent data governance across systems.
4. Integrate processes to ensure accountability, track progress on projects in real time, decrease redundancies, and arrive at actionable intelligence.