Should organization follow programs, or the other way around? Issues in PPBE reform
The main points which will be stressed in the succeeding paragraphs are: first, that PPBS has been and is being oversold and, in some ways, […]
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Have irregularities marked the success of weapons programs in years past?
Jerry McGinn: … the Department of Defense is stuck with the ’60s approaches which requires three years to really plan and then program and then […]
How will inflation impact military budgets, capabilities? It’s not straight-forward…
Personnel costs accounted for 38% of the Army’s fiscal year 2022 budget request, compared with 27% for the Navy and 21% for the Air Force, […]
DoD programs are over-analyzed, yet decisions remain superficial and shallow
I drop you into an exchange between Senator Scoop Jackson and Alain Enthoven, ASD Systems Analysis and one of McNamara’s ‘whiz kids,’ in a 1967 […]
All that acquisition reform, and scaling programs still looks like the old system
When we think of alternative acquisition, that tends to be other-transaction authority and middle-tier acquisition. For [Jonathan] Etherton, these prototyping mechanisms amount to a […]
What are the prerequisites to defense budget reform?
Here’s a snippet from Christopher O’Donnell, acting ASD(Acquisition) at the 2021 GMU/DAU conference: What the MTA has shown is that the JCIDS process and the […]
Transformations in defense budgeting — from BA 8 to portfolios
Congress is looking to slightly expand the new appropriation for software, BA 8, from 9 pilot programs to 12. Jared Serbu has a great article […]
The future of DoD’s Future Years Defense Program
Here’s Jeff Jordan on the a16z podcast: Back when I was at Disney I started in the strategic planning group, and one of the tasks […]
Space Force doubles down on budget portfolios, but must think carefully about the structure
“One of the things that we’re trying to do out of our office is to think about: How would we manage by portfolio as opposed […]
Mission-based budgets, getting real oversight, and DoD transformation
Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA): I’m honestly a little bit more on the side of we need to blow up the whole system here because the […]
Adam Smith on budget flexibility and congressional self-interest
Of course there is the procurement cycle, which to make it very simple, it’s too long. As technology is changing rapidly, if you’re saying that […]
Mac Thornberry backs NSCAI recommendations on budget reform
Mac Thornberry is on point in his article, How Congress must reform its budget process to compete against China in AI: The Biden administration’s 2022 budget proposal includes […]
Measuring the impact of unexpected inflation on DoD budgets, and other economic issues
Talking with Eric Torenberg, Noah Smith says “The Fed will not stick to any rules that it officially adopts.” (minute 32) “The Fed will always exercise […]
Who spends more? The debate over military budgets in the US and China
In essence, the CIA was using what today we would call PPP to compare the budgets of the two superpowers, a concept that Bill Greenwalt […]
JADC2 requires budget flexibility, LTG Dennis Crall says
We live with a set of acquisition rules as far as pace goes that probably fit the Cold War era very well. When you look […]