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6 Guiding Principles of a Next Generation Defense Budget System

The PPBE process in the US, while intended to unify strategy and budget, has become overly rigid, bureaucratic, and unproductive. As a result, the US military must transform its approach to fund emerg...

Decision Lens

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All Things Financial Management

The American Society of Military Comptrollers (ASMC) and Guidehouse present “All Things Financial Management,” a podcast series centered on topics of interest to the financial management community in ...

Guidehouse

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Competing in Time: Ensuring Capability Advantage and Mission Success through Adaptable Resource Allocation

The keystone of the Department of Defense’s institutional architecture is not acquisition, but rather the budgeting process. While there have been dozens of acquisition reform efforts, the budgeting p...

AEI

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Five First Steps to a Modern Defense Budgeting System

The current defense budgeting system requires bold reforms to strengthen U.S. national security going forward. Effectively reforming a sixty-year-old process with many competing interests and prioriti...

MITRE

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The DoD Budget Process – The Next Frontier of Acquisition Reform

This paper explores the wisdom of the traditional budget process based on organization rather than program. It proposes a 21st century agenda for budget reform, including specific examples of how pro-...

George Mason Center for Government Contracting School of Business

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Commission on PPBE Reform Status Update

A year after being sworn in, the Commissioners have chosen to provide this additional Status Update, which contains no recommendations but does summarize the Commission’s activities and efforts comple...

The PPBE Reform Commission

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How to Reform DOD’s PPBE Process

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...

Heritage Foundation

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Three Reforms to Improve Defense Resource Management

With a budget of over $700 billion per year, the US Department of Defense (DoD) represents the largest discretionary spending agency in the federal government. Attempting to allocate and coordinate th...

IBM Center for The Business of Government

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Precision and Posture: Defense Spending Trends and the FY23 Budget Request

This report examines the fiscal year (FY) 2023 defense budget request and assesses whether it sufficiently resources what was known of the Biden administration’s national defense strategy when the bud...

Center for a New American Security

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Software Defines Tactics: Structuring Military Software Acquisitions for Adaptability and Advantage in a Competitive Era

Embracing and orchestrating an ever-changing, diverse mixture of software is the key to competitive technical advantage in an era of ubiquitous computing and data.

Hudson Institute

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Strengthening the Defense Innovation Ecosystem

Technological superiority is a key element of the U.S. military’s strength and advantage over its competitors.

RAND Corporation

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Beyond Monopsony: Pentagon Reform in the Information Age

Serious reform is the patient work of many years, with an emphasis on what can be stopped, sunsetted, or eliminated.

AEI

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Reforming Defense Budgeting

The defense budget is burdened with a significant and increasing number of programs and activities that do not produce military capability.

AEI

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Commission On Defense Innovation Adoption: Interim Report

The US Department of Defense (DoD) needs to accelerate the adoption of cutting-edge technology from the leading edge of the commercial and defense sectors.

Atlantic Council

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The Modern Defense Budgeting System

The new MDBS no longer relies on lengthy, static, and parochial planning and programming processes.

MITRE Corporation

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PPBE Reform Commission Interim Report

The Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Reform has found through its research and interviews that while the current PPBE system has its strengths, significant improvem...

The PPBE Reform Commission

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PPBE Reform Commission Interim 2-Page Summary

This Interim Report identifies potential recommendations as well as actions that can be implemented now.

The PPBE Reform Commission

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Keeping the Pentagon Running: Commonsense Changes to Defense Budgeting

Reform that removes barriers is more important than efforts to add layers of new rules, organizations, or manpower to the Defense Department.

Hoover Institution

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PPBE in Comparative Organizations, Volume 1: Case Studies of China and Russia

In this volume, the first of four, RAND researchers conduct case studies of the budgeting processes of China and Russia, the two near-peer competitors.

RAND Corporation

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PPBE in Comparative Organizations, Volume 2: Case Studies of Selected Allied and Partner Nations

In this second volume of four reports on this subject, RAND researchers conduct case studies of the defense budgeting processes of Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom (UK).

RAND Corporation

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PPBE in Comparative Organizations, Volume 3: Case Studies of Selected Non-DoD Federal Agencies

This report presents case studies of PPBE functions in the U.S. DHS, HHS, NASA, and ODNI agencies to provide insights for improving the DoD's PPBE processes.

RAND Corporation

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PPBE in Comparative Organizations, Volume 4: Executive Summary

This executive summary distills key insights from a series of case studies of budgeting processes across nine comparative organizations, as detailed in three companion volumes.

RAND Corporation

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PPBE Reform Commission Final Report

'We are recommending significant reform to bring the Department’s resourcing into the 21st century.'

The PPBE Reform Commission

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PPBE in Comparative Organizations, Volume 5: Additional Case Studies of Selected Allied and Partner Nations

Volume 5 analyzes the defense budgeting processes of additional allied and partner nations (France, Germany, Japan, Singapore, and Sweden).

RAND Corporation

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PPBE in Comparative Organizations, Volume 6: Additional Case Studies of Selected Non-DoD Federal Agencies

Volume 6, analyzes the budgeting processes of two additional U.S. federal agencies other than DoD.

RAND Corporation

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PPBE in Comparative Organizations, Volume 7: Executive Summary for Additional Case Studies

This executive summary distills key insights from a series of case studies of budgeting processes across seven comparative organizations, as detailed Volumes 5 and 6.

RAND Corporation

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