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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Modern Defense Budgeting System
The new MDBS no longer relies on lengthy, static, and parochial planning and programming processes.
MITRE Corporation
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
PPBE Reform Commission Final Report
'We are recommending significant reform to bring the Department’s resourcing into the 21st century.'
The PPBE Reform Commission
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
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
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