The Heritage Foundation

Reforming the Defense Department’s Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution Process

Last year, the U.S. defense budget exceeded $700 billion. Most metrics would put it among the largest enterprises in the world. Nevertheless, the Defense Department’s planning, programming, budgeting, ...
csis.org

Reforming the Pentagon's Budgeting System: Can DOD and Congress Strike a Deal?

On August 15, a congressionally established commission published its interim report about reforming the Pentagon's budgeting system amid criticisms about inflexibility, a lack of agility, risk ...
Defense One

The Pentagon may be too busy to fix its half-century-old budget process, reform group says

A congressionally directed panel working on recommendations to give the Pentagon new spending flexibility released an interim report Tuesday—but acknowledged the Defense Department may not have the ...
Forbes

Defense Innovation Depends On A 60 Year Old Budgeting System

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Michael Brown is a Partner at venture capital firm Shield Capital. President John F. Kennedy speaks with his advisors, Gen.
War on the Rocks

Budget Reform Can’t Succeed Without Congress

The Department of Defense’s Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution program has been variously called “a relic of the past,” a “root cause of … bloat” and “the primary factor behind the decline ...