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, ...

At its core, the Defense Department’s planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE) process is a technical approach to a political issue. While technical problems need to be addressed by the ...

A congressionally directed panel working on recommendations to give the Pentagon new spending flexibility released an interim report Tuesday—but acknowledged the Defense Department may not have the ...

Each year, agencies within the Department of Defense develop a five-year federal budget plan for Congress that outlines the funding necessary to execute on the DoD’s programs and activities. This ...

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Sept. 22, 2021. Hicks is responsible for implementing recommendations — if any — from a recent report ...

On August 15, a congressionally established commission published its interim report about reforming the Pentagon's budgeting system amid criticisms about inflexibility, a lack of agility, risk ...

The United States’ ability to strengthen deterrence and maintain advantage over strategic competitors depends on how our Department of Defense can quickly and effectively field innovative capabilities ...

The Department of Defense’s Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution program has been variously called “a relic of the past,” a “root cause of … bloat” and “the primary factor behind the decline ...

A congressionally chartered panel is poised to make recommendations for ways to overhaul the way the Pentagon requests and spends hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars each year—in part so the U.S.

The Future Years Defense Program (FYDP, commonly pronounced “fye-dip”) is a projection of the forces, resources, and programs to support Department of Defense (DOD) operations. The FYDP is compiled ...