A Death in the Bureaucracy: The Demise of Federal PPB.

By these words, PPB became an unthing. No publicity or press release; only an erasure from the administrative record. The death notice was conveyed on June 21, 1971, in a memorandum accompanying Circular A-11, the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) annual ritual for the preparation and submission of agency budget requests. No mention was made in the memo of the three initials which had dazzled the world of