The Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution Reform, led by Bob Hale, one of the most capable people ever to hold the office of DOD comptroller; and Ellen Lord, a former under ...

Last year, the U.S. defense budget exceeded $700 billion. Most metrics would put it among the largest enterprises in the world. Nevertheless, the Defense Department’s planning, programming, budgeting, ...

The Coming Challenges in Defense Planning, Programming, and Budgeting: This brief analyzes the budgeting and planning challenges the Department of Defense (DOD) faces at it enters FY 2011. In ...

A1: The Pentagon's budgeting system is called the planning, programming, budgeting, and execution system (PPBES). The Deparment of Defense (DOD) defines it as follows: "The PPBE shall serve as the ...

The Planning, Programming, and Budget System (PPBS) system was brought to DOD in 1961 courtesy of the “best and the brightest” of the Kennedy administration.

To truly reform the Pentagon, Secretary Carter should take steps to narrow the gap between the theory and practice of the process designed to develop the future force: the Planning, Programming, ...

The Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution Reform can help the Defense Department to adapt to the changing demands of national defense.

At the time the proposed Ukrainian program structure was designed, the experts did not use information on the Canadian construct. Concept for Planning, Programming, and Budgeting in Bulgaria's ...

Austerity sounds like it should be about governments cutting costs and spending less. But it’s more about who controls ever-expanding public spending – and who doesn’t.

Speaking Tuesday to the Defense Writers Group, Lord said the commission is looking to “take what works and streamline it” in the Planning, Programming, Budget Execution Process [PPBE].

A select panel exploring a revamp of Pentagon budgeting is making “significant progress” with meetings and research efforts, according to its chairman, former Pentagon comptroller Bob Hale. In ...