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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DOD and DHS are both trying to tap into the best the tech sector has to offer, and each agency has new and experimental contracting mechanisms that are showing signs of short-circuiting existing ...

The Heritage Foundation’s Senior Policy Analyst for Defense Budgeting Frederico Battels, AEI Nonresident Senior Fellow Bill Greenwalt, The Honorable John E. Whitley, and Charles Cook discuss how to ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Department of Defense should consider adjusting its procurement process to speed up the deployment of new software capabilities ...

In recent years, Congress granted the Department of Defense (DOD) new and more flexible acquisition tools. Whether allowing more novel contract types or “agile” approaches, Congress and the DOD agreed ...