The PPBE process is the Defense Department’s system for connecting its strategy with funding needs, which ultimately produces the budget request the White House delivers to Congress on an annual basis ...

The congressionally established Commission on PPBE Reform offers 28 actionable recommendations in its final report to reform the current PPBE process, which will give the DOD the ability to ...

The panel's job is to modernize the Pentagon’s over half-a-century-old budget process, called the Planning, Programming, Budgeting & Execution Process, or PPBE, so the military can get newer ...

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.

Defense Department agencies and components participate in the cyclical PPBE process, through which senior DOD leaders determine funding requirements and allocate resources to satisfy those ...

Amid a push to streamline and accelerate acquisition, the Defense Department is dismantling its decades-old Joint ...

Opinion: The PBBE process is no longer able to keep up with the pace of innovation and the complexity of growing national defense threats.

Senior Fellow Elaine McCusker joins the “Squaring the Circle” podcast to discuss the Pentagon’s Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process, continuing resolutions, and ...

Since 2022, a congressional commission has been working on recommendations for reforms of this planning, programming, budgeting, and execution, or PPBE, process.

The commission is considering reforms to key PPBE documents, such as the Department’s Defense Planning Guidance, in order to more clearly communicate how the budget implements strategy.