Implementation of Management Initiative Decision (Mid) 913 - Background and Impact within DOD
Abstract
The Department of Defense will formulate two-year budgets and use the off-year (odd numbered year) to focus on budget execution and program performance. Services Combatant Commands and Defense-Wide Agencies will submit their Program Objective Memorandums and Budget Estimate Submissions every two years vice each year. The intent of the off-year is to allow limited changes to the baseline programs. Services Combatant Commands and Defense-Wide Agencies will submit off-year changes using Program Change Proposals and Budget Change Proposals. In the off-year equal offsets will accompany changes to these proposals to ensure this is a zero sum event. However implementing MID 913 at a time when our nation is at war will be difficult. Though the intent of the off-year is to have limited change submissions one can expect just the opposite as OPTEMPO in DoD is at a monthly burnrate in the billions. Contrary to DoD guidance mixing war with a peacetime budget will exponentially cause reason to have major reprograms annual supplemental and numerous change proposals - both program and budget! The new process assumes there will be little movement of programs in the off-year. Bottom line: This paper will discuss the history leading to the implementation of MID 913 lessons learned from the recent FY 2005-2009 Program and Budget Review and ways to improve the process in the future as well as recommend areas not to be changed.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 19, 2004
- Accession Number
- ADA424013
Entities
People
- Leon I. Smith
Organizations
- United States Army War College