Return the Decision-Analysis Methodology to the POM Development Process
Abstract
"A vision without resources is a hallucination." This quotation is a favorite of General officers in the Pentagon; it means the best ideas are worthless if they cannot be funded. The responsibility for finding the money to fund ideas, or programs, in the Marine Corps ultimately belongs to the Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC). The Deputy Commandant (DC) for Programs and Resources (P&R) has been delegated the responsibility of producing the Marine Corps' budget in the form of a Program Objective Memorandum (POM). POM development is accomplished through the Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) system. PPBE is a deliberate and methodical process that has been used to allocate fiscal resources within the Department of Defense (DoD) for almost fifty years. For over twenty-five years, the Marine Corps has utilized a standardized process to complete its POM. In 2006, however, that process was redesigned in a manner that has resulted in more PPBE contains milestones, events, and products that drive the process throughout the year, but each of the individual military services decides how to develop its own emotion-based resourcing decisions that reflect budget constraints more so than program performance, programs at the expense of core capabilities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 26, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA536962
Entities
People
- J. P. Bahr
Organizations
- Marine Corps University