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[Potential for Cost Reduction in Providing Message Refile
Services through DOD Telecommunications Centers). LCD-76-128;
B-145864. Ma,- 18, 191'. 5 pp.
Report to Harold Brown, Secret~ry, Department of Defense; by
Fred J. Shafer, Director, Logistics and Communications Div.
Issue Area: Military P:eparedness Plans: Military Communications
and Information Processing Needs (803).
Contact: Logistics an6 Communications Div.
Budget ?unction: General Science, Space, and Technology:
Telecommunications and Radio Frequency Spectrum Use (258).
Organization Concerned: Genetil Services Administration.
Congressional Relevance: House Comiittee on Armed Services;
Senate Committee on Armed Services.
The Department of Defense's (DCD) message refile
ac-tivities were surveyed to ascertain the potential for co-t
reductions. Findings/Conclusions: The potential exists for
savings through automation of =-file centers, especially where
refiles are mf:- to subscrib.rs of other networks who have a
terminal and the delivery could be male electronically without
human intervention. However, certain types of messages, such ds
the PMS-type, where the carrier and the Government persnnel
would perform the same manual delivery functions, should be
considered for exclusion. Recommendations: DOD shoild determine
the feasibilities and econcmies of (1) further consolidatic of
refile centers, (2) automating the operations performed in
refiling messages, and (3) having public message service-type
mebsages delivered by refile center personnel via telephone and
mail versus refile and delivery by commercial carrie'r personnel;
implement the above for maximum economies and efficiencies; and
reemphasize to refile center personnel the importance of
limiting access to DOD's communications systems to authorized
users only. (Author/DJM)](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaacex0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)