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 ...
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 ...
Early in 2001, shortly after I had been nominated to be the Department of Defense comptroller in the new George W. Bush administration, former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara asked me if the ...
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 ...
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