Pilot of the Modern Army Record-Keeping System (MARKS) at 5th Battalion, 73rd Armored Regiment, 194th Armored Brigade, Fort Knox, Kentucky.

摘要

This report covers an initial pilot test of a new record-keeping system for the Army which will eventually replace The Army Functional Files System (TAFFS), which was instituted Army-wide in the early 1960's. The new system (Modern Army Record-Keeping System, or MARKS) is subjective, and has as its basis the established and widely recognized numbering scheme for administrative publications. Under MARKS, recorded information is identified and filed by a number which is the same as the basic number of the prescribing directive -- usually an Army Regulation or Department of the Army Pamphlet -- which requires that the information be created, maintained, and used. Other innovations included in the pilot of MARKS were creation of a 'general correspondence' category, inclusion of Privacy Act 'pointers', recording of file number on a document at the time of creation, and amenability to automation through Standard Data Elements and keyword strings. (Author)