Thoughts on Agility Through Appropriations or, If BA-8 is Successful, What Next?

Abstract

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) seeks sufficient funds from the U.S. Congress to meet critical national security missions. However, predicting, budgeting, authorizing, and appropriating the type and amount of needed funding can be challenging, especially when threats and technologies are changing faster than Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process timelines, which run over two years given that the DoD starts planning 19 months before the programming and budgeting stage begins (e.g., see McGarry, 2021b). Threats and needs can even change after budgets are authorized and appropriated by Congress, and reprogramming of those funds are limited.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2022
Accession Number
AD1181847

Entities

People

  • Philip S. Anton

Organizations

  • Stevens Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Congress
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Federal Budgets
  • Financial Management
  • Governments
  • House Of Representatives
  • Investments
  • Law
  • Military Acquisition
  • National Security
  • Procurement
  • Software Development
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting
  • Systems Analysis and Design