Planning Ahead in the Department of Defense

David Novick

ResearchPosted on rand.org 1963Published in: California Management Review, v. 4, no. 2, Summer 1963, p. 35-42

The Cost Analysis Department of the RAND Corporation, under a contract with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), has been assisting the Department of Defense in the development of a new planning-programming-budgeting process. This article describes in a general way the basic principles of the new process, and sheds further light on the vital question of defense expenses.

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  • Copyright: Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
  • Publisher: Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 1963
  • Pages: 8
  • Document Number: EP-196306-02

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