OF THE PERFORMANCE BUDGET By Commander Paul Fitz-Patrick, U. S. Navy For

To some of us in the Navy who had been concerned more with doing our own little,job and less with overall Naval policy, the present performance type of budget appeared on the scene relatively unheralded. Because of the expectations for a better Navy resulting from this planning-budgeting-management tool, I have chosen to do this paper to knit together in a fashion indicated by the title, some information concerning the performance type budget. Informative writings on the performance type budget are still not plentiful. Various writings place the "credit " for our having such a budget in divers quarters. Members of the naval establishment may take pride in the fact that the United States Navy may well be the leading organization in terms of having fathered the performance type budget. These general statements will be treated at greater length later, herein