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![It’s Time To Bring the Pentagon Budget Into the 21st Century](https://www.thefutureofppbe.com/hubfs/Industrial%20Budgeting-3.png)

[It’s Time To Bring the Pentagon Budget Into the 21st Century](https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/06/26/its_time_to_bring_the_pentagon_budget_into_the_21st_century_1040488.html)

RealClear Defense

 Jun 26, 2024

An implementation plan is needed, as the Commission noted in its final report. Fortunately, Congress has now taken up the ...

[Society of Defense Financial Management and Decision Lens: PPBE Survey Findings](https://www.thefutureofppbe.com/hubfs/2024%20New%20Site%20Assets/Future%20of%20PPBE%20Content/PPBE_Survey_Findings.pdf?hsLang=en)

Society of Defense Financial Management

 May 29, 2024

The survey data paints a complex picture of attitudes towards PPBE Reform. While there is strong positivity and belief in ...

[How the Pentagon Can More Rapidly Buy and Field the Latest Tech](https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/2024/04/29/how-the-pentagon-can-more-rapidly-buy-and-field-the-latest-tech/)

Defense News

 Apr 29, 2024

PPBE reform is required to take advantage of this new technological landscape.

[Compiling Advantage: Unlocking the Competitive Power of Software Adaptability](https://www.hudson.org/information-technology/compiling-advantage-unlocking-competitive-power-software-adaptability-ellen-lord-dan-patt)

Hudson Institute

 Mar 29, 2024

The Department of Defense (DoD) needs to harness the power of software to quickly assemble, effectively deploy, and ...

[Defense Innovation Depends On A 60 Year Old Budgeting System](https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikebrown/2024/03/21/defense-innovation-depends-on-a-60-year-old-budgeting-system/?sh=144b366910df)

Forbes

 Mar 21, 2024

Effective defense innovation depends on reforming defense budgeting.

[PPBE Reform Commission Final Report](https://ppbereform.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Commission-on-PPBE-Reform_Full-Report_6-March-2024_FINAL.pdf)

PPBE Reform Commission

 Mar 6, 2024

"...We are recommending significant reform to bring the Department’s resourcing into the 21st century."

[Long-awaited report would replace DoD’s PPBE process with ‘Defense Resourcing System’](https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2024/03/long-awaited-report-would-replace-dods-ppbe-system-with-defense-resourcing-system/)

Federal News Network

 Mar 6, 2024

"No longer will we have to wait two years because of our lack of flexibilities in the year of execution.”

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##### 6 Guiding Principles of a Next Generation Defense Budget System

The PPBE process in the US, while intended to unify strategy and budget, has become overly rigid, bureaucratic, and unproductive. As a result, the US military must transform its approach to fund emerg...

Decision Lens

<https://www.thefutureofppbe.com/hubfs/Ebook-6GuidingPrinciples-v4Digital.pdf?hsLang=en>

Podcast

##### All Things Financial Management

The American Society of Military Comptrollers (ASMC) and Guidehouse present “All Things Financial Management,” a podcast series centered on topics of interest to the financial management community in ...

Guidehouse

<https://guidehouse.com/insights/defense/2021/all-things-financial-management-podcast>

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##### Competing in Time: Ensuring Capability Advantage and Mission Success through Adaptable Resource Allocation

The keystone of the Department of Defense’s institutional architecture is not acquisition, but rather the budgeting process. While there have been dozens of acquisition reform efforts, the budgeting p...

AEI

<https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Greenwalt_Competing-in-Time.pdf?x91208>

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#### ASMC PDI 2024

The PDI is ASMC’s premier training event and will take place on May 29 – 31 in Phoenix, Arizona at the Phoenix Convention Center. Registration will open on March 1, 2024.

American Society of Military Comptrollers

![Calendar Icon](https://www.thefutureofppbe.com/hubfs/microsite/icons/calendar-icon.svg) May 29, 2024 

<https://www.pdi2024.org/>

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#### ASMC Redstone-Huntsville Chapter PDI

Join us for an ASMC Professional Development Event and earn CPE!

ASMC Redstone-Huntsville Chapter

![Calendar Icon](https://www.thefutureofppbe.com/hubfs/microsite/icons/calendar-icon.svg) Mar 14, 2024 

<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/asmc-monthly-professional-development-event-tickets-799968054987?aff=ebdsoporgprofile>

![2024 ASMC National Capital Region PDI](https://www.thefutureofppbe.com/hubfs/ASMC%20NCR%20PDI%2024%20Test.png)

#### 2024 ASMC National Capital Region PDI

Join us for this vibrant training and networking event with key government and industry thought leaders to optimize FM education while helping to raise funds for charities and scholarships.

American Society of Military Comptrollers

![Calendar Icon](https://www.thefutureofppbe.com/hubfs/microsite/icons/calendar-icon.svg) Mar 13, 2024 

<https://washington-asmc.digitellinc.com/live/14/page/194>

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