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 ...

Each year, agencies within the Department of Defense develop a five-year federal budget plan for Congress that outlines the funding necessary to execute on the DoD’s programs and activities. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Sept. 22, 2021. Hicks is responsible for implementing recommendations — if any — from a recent report ...

The U.S. Defense Department's shift to a two-year budgeting cycle is receiving new scrutiny as it begins to confront its first off-year budget planning process, Joint Chiefs of Staff Vice Chairman Gen ...

Editor’s Note: The below is an excerpt of John Ferrari’s chapter in Resourcing the National Security Enterprise: Connecting the Ends and Means of U.S. National Security edited by Susan Bryant and Mark ...

Military personnel stand in formation next to a portrait of China's President Xi Jinping (back) outside the Forbidden City in Beijing on October 22, 2020, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of Chinas ...

The Heritage Foundation’s Senior Policy Analyst for Defense Budgeting Frederico Battels, AEI Nonresident Senior Fellow Bill Greenwalt, The Honorable John E. Whitley, and Charles Cook discuss how to ...