Every year, the Pentagon’s top-level bureaucrats use the PPBE process to decide what goes forward to the president to create their part of his yearly budget request to Congress.

The PPBE planning process is foundational to JADC2, but there are significant roadblocks to making the joint mission a reality.

Nevertheless, the Defense Department’s planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE) process that governs how the department decides to allocate its resources is a relic of the past.

In the coming weeks, a congressionally directed commission will begin the hard work to arrive at recommendations to reform the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process.

The commission on PPBE reform can help bring adaptability and flexibility to how the DoD delivers capabilities to that multifaceted battlefield.

Within the PPBE process, certain events happen at certain times; if one does not show up to the right meeting, with the right information, at the right time of the year, it is like missing a train ...

After two years spent studying the Defense Department's resourcing process, the commission recommends wholesale changes to the 60-year-old system.

The traditional Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process has been the bane of innovators and acquisition reformers for years. But so far little structural change has been made.

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, ...