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B-160146 1 (1971-11-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaafdw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING 0 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 DEFENSE DIVISION r3 B-16046 tv i b 1911 BEST DOCUMENT AVAILABLE - The Honorable The Secretary of Defense Dear Mr. Secretary: In our letter of January 29, 1971, we informed you that the General Accounting Office had scheduled a review of the management of Department of Defense (DOD) periodicals. As a part of this review, we 6btainefd infomatiolf dn the policies, procedures, and practices of DOD and the military services in approving, monitoring, and distributing periodicals. We also obtained certain information on 291 individual periodicals published within DOD from question- naires prepared and distributed at our request through the normal command channels of each of the military services. Based on preliminary data obtained, we began a detailed review to assess the effectiveness of the management controls over these publications. However, on October 6, 1971, Mr. John C. Broger, the Director, Office of Information for the Armed Forces, informed us that his office planned to make a study of these and other period- icals. We met with him on October 20, 1971, to exchange information and to coordinate our efforts. As a result of that meeting, we agreed to suspend our review (code 85224) pending completion of the DOD study. We furnished to Mr. Broger certain information and analyses we had already developed, as well as our observations on matters we believe warrant particular attention. Our observations are summarized below for your information. --Procedures regarding the approval of proposed new periodicals vary considerably among the three services. Depending on the type of periodical proposed, it may be approved at the depart- ment level, by a field commander, or by a unit commander. The criteria furnished the many officials authorized to approve new periodicals are very broad or not adeunate to ensure that new publications are necessary and not duplicative of the pur- poses and subject matter of existing periodicals. -51 50TH ANNIVERSARY 1921-1971(

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