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 ...

In a new survey, Defense financial managers say budget process hinders warfighters. The Defense Department's planning, programming, budget and execution system is too slow and inflexible to adequately ...

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 ...

It is one of history’s great ironies that a major factor in defeating Soviet communism was one of the largest centrally planned economies in the world — the U.S. Department of Defense. The Senate’s ...

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 this ...

Early in 2001, shortly after I had been nominated to be the Department of Defense comptroller in the new George W. Bush administration, former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara asked me if the ...

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 United States cannot afford to fall behind in advancing technologies — like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, hypersonics, biotechnology or autonomous systems — against a near-peer ...