§ 224.4 - Policy.

It is DoD policy that:

(a) Committees shall be established only when their functions cannot be accomplished within the existing organizational structure.

(b) Committees shall be established to perform such tasks as fact-finding, research, evaluation, studies, and reviews.

(c) Committees may be established to perform operational, administrative, or management functions.

(d) When establishing committees, consideration shall be given to ensuring necessity, economy and efficiency of operation, and execution within resource constraints.

(e) Committees shall be disestablished when the purpose for which they were established has been served.

(f) Nothing contained in this part shall be construed to limit or restrict the free exchange of information, advice, and ideas between representatives of DoD Components or other Federal Agencies through ad hoc occasional meetings or other means.