At its core, the Defense Department’s planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE) process is a technical approach to a political issue. While technical problems need to be addressed by the ...

As a congressionally directed commission begins work on recommendations for reforming the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process, experts weigh in on how it should prioritize ...

Peter Levine (DOD photo by Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith) and Lisa Disbrow (U.S. Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash) Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has appointed Hon. Peter Levine and Hon. Lisa Disbrow to ...

WASHINGTON, March 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- This month marks the one-year anniversary of the release of the Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Reform's final report, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — The Pentagon’s Replicator initiative, which aims to establish a repeatable process to quickly field and ...

It seems like every year there is another commission, task force or board that studies the defense acquisition system. Fiscal 2022 continues the pattern with the rather bureaucratic-sounding ...

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, left, speaks with Raj Shah at DIUx headquarters in Mountain View, California, in August 2017. (DOD photo / Flickr) A congressionally mandated commission investigating how ...

President John F. Kennedy speaks with his advisors, Gen. Maxwell Taylor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (l), and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, giving final instructions to the two men ...

In the recently passed FY22 Pentagon budget, Congress has ordered a review of how the U.S. Defense Department (DOD) asks for and gets its yearly money. A reasonable question as, by dollar expense, it ...

The United States’ ability to strengthen deterrence and maintain advantage over strategic competitors depends on how our Department of Defense can quickly and effectively field innovative capabilities ...