The Heritage Foundation

Improving Defense Resourcing: Recommendations for the Commission on Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution Reform

At its core, the Defense Department’s planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE) process is a technical approach to a political issue. While technical problems need to be addressed by the ...
War on the Rocks

Making Defense Reform Sane Again: Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has repeatedly called for reforms to the Pentagon’s ineffective acquisition system, and rightly so. Yet the troubled acquisition process is only one aspect of a larger ...
War on the Rocks

Reforming the Defense Department’s Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution Process

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, ...
PBS

Frank Zilm - Programming and Planning a Complex Service: The Emergency Service Case Study

Texas A&M Architecture For Health is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, ...