As a congressionally directed commission begins work on recommendations for reforming the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process, experts weigh in on how it should prioritize ...

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 ...

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, ...

It seems like every year there is another commission, task force or board that studies the defense acquisition system. Fiscal 2022 continues the pattern with the rather bureaucratic-sounding ...

In the recently passed FY22 Pentagon budget, Congress has ordered a review of how the U.S. Defense Department (DOD) asks for and gets its yearly money. A reasonable question as, by dollar expense, it ...

It goes through several steps: aligning the president’s and defense secretary’s security strategy through planning, developing proposed funding for programs that support it, converting those programs ...

Defense experts say a Pentagon initiative to field thousands of autonomous systems over the 18 months offers a use case for defense budget reform. (Pvt. 2nd Class James Newsome/Army) SIMI VALLEY, ...

The Pentagon’s budget process is not agile enough to quickly get emerging technology to soldiers on the battlefield, President Biden’s pick to oversee the Defense Department’s research and engineering ...

As Congress struggles to do its primary job of providing resources for federal government operations, the Senate Appropriations Committee has produced its fiscal year 2022 bills. Following are five ...

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 ...