As part of its research, the commission has conducted 560 interviews so far with Pentagon and congressional staffers and compared the Pentagon’s PPBE system with the budget process in other ...

An independent commission is considering major changes to Pentagon budgeting in response to criticisms that the process is too slow, ... Note that DOD uses “PPBE” to refer to the general topic of ...

WASHINGTON, March 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- This month marks the one-year anniversary of the release of the Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Reform's final ...

The Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Reform (Commission), established in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), publicly released ...

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, Section 1004, created the independent Commission within the legislative branch on reform of the Department of Defense PPBE process.

Defense committee leaders Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Roger Wicker, R-Miss., called the PPBE commission’s report encouraging, and said the recommendations “should help the Department develop ...

In the fiscal 2022 defense policy bill, Congress established a bipartisan commission — made up of former defense officials, lawmakers and industry executives — to review the PPBE process and make ...

Defense committee leaders Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Roger Wicker, R-Miss., called the PPBE commission’s report encouraging, and said the recommendations “should help the Department develop ...

To its credit, the Department of Defense has finally begun exploring options to reform its 63-year-old planning, programming, budgeting, and execution process—PPBE—a relic of the McNamara era.

Fortunately, both House and Senate versions of the defense bill for 2025 call for establishing “a cross-functional team” to implement the PPBE Commission recommendations.