Need For A Government-Wide Budget Classification Structure For Federal Research And Development Information
Abstract
There is a need for a unified presentation of Federal Research and Development (R and D) budgetary information according to "define able user patterns." An agency-wide structure for the Department of Housing and Urban Development contributed to the development of a conceptual foundation for the government-wide structure, which is called the "Unified Classification Structure for Federal Research and Development." The categories in the structure have been designed to identify specific national objectives which are of concern or interest to the Congress. The proposed structure will be a supplementary categorization of total funding for all research by national objective. The Office of management and the Budget ORB) stated that a useful course of action would be to develop some limited supplementary R and P data on an interagency basis to cover specific problem areas identified by the Congress, thus avoiding the collection of too such data. OMB also concluded that the GAO system be rationalized with other efforts.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 03, 1977
- Accession Number
- AD1121698
Entities
Organizations
- Comptroller General of the United States