Army Regulation AR 25-30: The Army Publishing Program Manual (2006) PDF (EN)

Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com Army Regulation 25–30 Information Management: Publishing and Printing The Army Publishing Program Headquarters Department of the Army Washington, DC 27 March 2006 UNCLASSIFIED

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Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com SUMMARY of CHANGE AR 25–30 The Army Publishing Program This rapid action revision, dated 27 March 2006-- o Changes Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3 to Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3/5/7 throughout. o Changes the Applicability statement to read, “This regulation applies to the Active Army, the Army National Guard/Army National Guard of the United States, and the U.S. Army Reserve, unless otherwise stated.” o Deletes references to the decentralized departmental publishing programs throughout. o Authorizes the Deputy for U.S.

Army Services and Operations Agency to serve as the agent of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army for the approval and authentication of all new and revised Department of the Army policy publications excepting certain Department of the Army General Orders (paras 1-10 and 3-11c). o Realigns under The Judge Advocate General the responsibility for the Secretary of the Army delegation review (paras 1-15a and 3-11b).

o Clarifies the Secretary of the Army delegation of authentication and approval authority to the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army and expands the existing exclusion of certain Department of the Army General Orders to include those that establish or reorganize elements of the Department of the Army (para 1-7). o Requires mandatory generic staff action control email addresses for HQDA agencies and MACOMs (para 1-19c). o Requires commanders of major Army command and major subordinate commands to review and comment on draft publications when command coordination or approval is required (para 1-20k).

o Clarifies use of contractors as publishing and printing managers (para 1-23). o Standardizes the 18-month review requirement for all publication categories (para 1-26c). o Directs that administrative publications be revised at a minimum of every 3 years, as appropriate (para 2-4d). o Clarifies distribution restrictions (para 2-10). o Requires a prepublication meeting at the onset of a publishing project(para 2-4a).

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Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com o Establishes staffing and disposition policy for electronic messages that announce impending changes to DA administrative publications (para 2-3a(2)). o Expands the criteria for priority revisions (para 3-5b). o Requires a resolution meeting to address unresolved critical or major nonconcurrence issues (para 3-10a(3)). o Implements new staffing guidance (para 3-11a and table 3-2).

o Revises chapter 6, Secretary of the Army Awards for Improving Publications, to broaden the criteria and eligibility requirements to make the awards program more inclusive for those who provide significant support to the Army Publishing Program in positions other than writers and editors. o Redefines the term “form” to include the electronic data collection (glossary, section II). Specifically, this revision dated 2 June 2004- o Assigns responsibilities to the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology) (para 1-11). o Requires, to the maximum extent possible, staffing publications electronically (para 3-11a(3)).

o Sets policy for electronic technical manuals (ETMs)/interactive electronic technical manuals (IETMs) (para 3-16). This revision dated 16 March 2004- o Updates the list of major Army commands to reflect the name change of the Military Traffic Management Command (MTMC) to Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) and the new status of the U.S. Army South as a major subordinate command of the U.S. Army Forces Command (fig 3-2).

o Changes the wording to be used in the proponent and exception authority paragraph to clarify that division chiefs in the proponent agency or officials in the grade of colonel or the civilian equivalent in the agency’s direct reporting unit or field operating agency may approve exceptions to policy (fig. 3-3 and para 3-2b). This revision dated 15 January 2004- o Changes the supplementation paragraph authority and the suggested improvements paragraph address from the Office of the Administrative Assistant, Executive Service, Organizational Management to the Office of the Administrative Assistant, Services and Operations Agency.

o Adds a new cross-reference responsibilities paragraph and renumbers subsequent paragraphs accordingly (chap 1).

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Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com o Changes the status of the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army from a required office for the coordination of all policy publications to an office to be coordinated with depending on the subject matter (tables 3-1 and 3-2). o Adds the Army Enterprise Integration Oversight Office as required coordination for policy publications (table 3-2). o Expands the coordination of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management to include the Installation Management Agency and all installation management functional areas (table 3-3).

o Changes the exceptions to policy provisions and provides a revised sample proponent and exception authority statement (para 3-2 and figure 3-3). o Reflects reorganization within the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army and Headquarters realignment throughout the regulation. o Realigns responsibilities within the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army from the Army Publishing Directorate, formerly the U.S. Army Publishing Agency, and the Policy and Plans Directorate to the Deputy for Services and Operations Agency, Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army throughout the regulation.

o Changes the office symbol SAAA-ESOM-PO to SAAA-SO where appropriate throughout the regulation. o Changes references to the U.S. Army Publishing Agency (USAPA) to Army Publishing Directorate (APD) and updates applicable office symbols throughout the regulation. o Deletes references to the Army Electronic Library CD-ROM throughout the regulation. This revision dated 15 July 2002-- o Implements milestone dates set forth by the Secretary of the Army initiative to streamline Army regulation publishing (chaps 2 and 3). o Promotes the use of the Army Knowledge Online collaboration site as a means for making draft publications available for review and comment (paras 2-6 and 2-7).

o Instructs proponents to submit administrative revisions to the United States Army Publishing Agency in lieu of the Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army (para 3-5). o Removes the specific requirement for multiple Office of the Judge Advocate General legal reviews (para 3-5). o Requires the proponent to submit the document (with a copy of the Office of the Judge Advocate General’s comments) to the United States Army Publishing Agency for editing and preparation for publication (para 3-7).

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