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).