Evaluation is a solid brand new technology. It is contained in the Data Series. It is a high skill. An evaluator takes very hard training and lots of practice and a purity of view that has not previously existed.

At this writing it is doubtful if there are half a dozen truly skilled evaluators on the planet. There are a few hundred who know of the system and can use it to some degree. There are a few thousand who know the title of it and use some of its words loosely. More are being made. For the direct observed results in using the system are incredibly improved over and above any past effort to resolve organizational, social or any other type of problem.

A good evaluation gives the magic key to open the road to betterment in any endeavor. From it alone comes the diamond-valued program which, done step by step, will take one forward to certain result.

While evaluation is as yet so little known that it can be looked on by the uninitiated as just another program, or something you write up because "you know the Why" of the situation, respect is growing as evidence of its magic increases and awe has begun to appear here and there where black night was turned to broadest day.

So where there were half a dozen, there will be many dozen. And any planner, command or policy-making personnel who cannot use the Data Series are very likely to fail in this organization.

Based on the works of

[Note: This policy letter has been cancelled by HCO PL 7 Dec. 1981, DATA SERIES 54 EVALUATION CANCELLED which reads as follows:

"HCO PL 7 December 1981, Data Series 54, EVALUATION, is hereby cancelled as it was erroneously issued as the wrong issue type per HCO PL 24 Sept. 70 RA, ISSUES, TYPES OF and HCO PL 5 Mar. 65, Iss II, POLICY, SOURCE OF.

It is being reissued as a C130, C130 731 INT, EVALUATION."]