Planning Programming Budgeting & Execution (PPBE)

Pentagon’s budget process needs ‘fundamental restructuring,’ panel says

The almost 400-page PPBE report draws on two years of research and more than 400 interviews, and resulted in 28 recommendations, half of which are denoted as key changes.

By Valerie Insinna

Pentagon

Reform the budget process to strengthen US global leadership: RAND

Budget dysfunction in DC can disrupt Pentagon programs and leave allies hanging. The US needs to reform its budgeting process to support its leadership role, two RAND scholars argue.

By Stephanie Young and Megan McKernan

Congress

Lawmakers name familiar faces in defense to budgeting reform commission

Leadership of the House and Senate Armed Services Committee named their selections to the NDAA-mandated Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution Reform.

By Andrew Eversden

Land Warfare

To Aid Digital Transformation, Army Eyes ‘One Cloud’ And Faster Acquisition

"The Army in the past has always executed traditional IT in a very decentralized way — we let every command do their own thing," Army CIO Raj Iyer said. "Now, if you look at the requirements for multi-domain operations, that model doesn't work anymore."

By Theresa Hitchens

Pentagon

New NDIA Spin-Off Focuses On Building Next-Gen Tech Base For DoD

The institute will concentrate on artificial intelligence; autonomy; biotechnology; cyber; directed energy; command, control and communications; hypersonics; microelectronics; quantum science; space; and '5G to Next G.'

By Theresa Hitchens

Congress

Faster Weapon Buys: Try Evolutionary Innovation

At a time when political consensus on anything can be hard to reach, there is general agreement that the United States military must modernize to fend off a rising China and meet other national security needs. Bringing defense capability into the future usually generates thoughts of new weapons. However, much of the needed modernization must […]

By Dan Patt and Elaine McCusker