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, ...

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 ...

Peter Levine (DOD photo by Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith) and Lisa Disbrow (U.S. Air Force photo/Scott M. Ash) Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has appointed Hon. Peter Levine and Hon. Lisa Disbrow to ...

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 ...

Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Sept. 22, 2021. Hicks is responsible for implementing recommendations — if any — from a recent report ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A U.S. Department of Defense logo adorns a booth at the Association of the U.S. Army annual convention in Washington, D.C. (Colin Demarest/C4ISRNET) Will America be able to defend itself and support ...

The Department of Defense’s Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution program has been variously called “a relic of the past,” a “root cause of … bloat” and “the primary factor behind the decline ...

Today's aerospace and defense companies want to improve their program planning and execution so they can provide accurate and complete bids that enable them to reduce bid and proposal expenses and ...

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 ...