CHAPTER3

Recent PPBES Transformation in the Defense Department

By L.R. Jones and Jerry L. McCaffery

In 2003 the DoD announced significant changes to the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS), renaming it the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES) (Secretary of Defense, 2003a). The PPBES is the policy development, resource planning, and budgeting process for national defense. It is characterized by complexity and plurality. The DoD prepares its plan and budget using this system, which allocated almost $380 billion in federal funds in FY 2004, about 48% of the discretionary federal budget, and is projected to allocate $2.1 trillion from 2004 through 2008. This is almost six times the next-largest discretionary ...

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