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title: Mission
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### Who are We?

We believe the PPBE process, while intended to unify strategy and budget, has become overly rigid, bureaucratic, and unproductive. Therefore, the renewed focus on reforming this process is critical to America maintaining the premier global military and preserving our way of life.

This website is dedicated to the identification, collection, and distribution of content from all sources which might assist in the reformation process.

This website will be updated regularly as we seek to provide necessary information as reform is being considered.

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## Why the PPBE Process needs Reform

Our current budget process is cumbersome and slow, resulting in inferior outcomes. Instead of representing the agility coveted by Silicon Valley the current approach is having unintended negative consequences for several reasons.

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#### It is Overly Rigid

 Every inefficiency not aligned with expanding capacity or delivering timely innovation is an undue burden.

![12](https://www.thefutureofppbe.com/hubfs/12.jpg)

#### It Slows Innovation

 Long- term planning is impeded by PPBE making it take far too long for innovations to reach the warfighter.

![11](https://www.thefutureofppbe.com/hubfs/11.jpg)

#### It is Not Transparent

 An opaque system requires extensive oversight resulting in waste, bloat, and delayed decisions.

![13](https://www.thefutureofppbe.com/hubfs/13.jpg)

#### It Limits Alignment

 The current system does not do enough to invest in more aligned, innovative, emerging investments.

### Elements of a Next-Gen Defense Budgeting System

### Six Guiding Principles

 An agile approach to budgeting will result in a sustained operational advantage providing decision makers with data-informed options to act more definitively.

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##### Leverage Leading Edge Technology

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##### Deliver Mission Alignment

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##### Planning Must be Continuous

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##### Transparency and Accountability are Embedded

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##### Collaboration is Required

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##### It Must be Enterprise-Wide

### Benefits of Reform

##### Deliver the Future

Effectively balance the tradeoffs between readiness and future force capabilities

##### Agility

Allow for rapid, impact-aware response to world events

##### Defend America

Ensure American overmatch over our near-peer adversaries

##### Innovation

Deliver innovations to the warfighter at a faster pace

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