An analysis of performance budgeting within the Department of the Army

Specifically, this thesis will deal with the development of the performance budget concept in the Department of the Army. The study spans the period from October, 1949, when the Department of the Army made the first steps in the development of a performance budget structure, to the present plans for projecting the budget requirements for PY 1955. In scope, the thesis will endeavor to relate the requirements of the law to the performance budget structure actually developed in the Department of the Army, outline a chronology of development of the performance budget structure, indicate some of the major continuing problems in the field of performance budgeting in the Army, and analyze the degree to which the evolving performance structure measures up the basic concept of performance budgeting.