The Pentagon may be too busy to fix its half-century-old budget process, reform group says
The congressional panel looking at the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution system has interim recommendations—and doubts about their implementability.
AUDREY DECKER | AUGUST 15, 2023
PENTAGON DEFENSE BUDGET
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 bandwidth to implement their suggestions.
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 technology much faster than it can today.
The commission’s interim report details “potential recommendations” and other actions that could be implemented immediately to speed up the Defense Department’s budget process. The commission will release its final report in March 2024.
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