[1] This office also maintains close relations and contacts in the entertainment industry with the goal of telling the US military's story by facilitating accurate information and relevant themes and messages.
[2] In exchange for providing access and cooperation, Navy officials are shown early drafts of scripts.
NAVINFO maintains that they do not censor film and TV projects that do not enhance the image of the Navy.
The office is part of the Pentagon's role in actively controlling the popular image of national security shaped by the film and television products with which it is involved.
In 2014 Captain Russell Coons, director of NAVINFO, stated, "We're not going to support a program that disgraces a uniform or presents us in a compromising way.