Planning Program Budgeting News Today

Good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for joining us as we roll out the fy 2017 Defense Budget. The Defense Budget request totals 523. 9 billion in discretionary funding for our billion in and 58. 8 overseas Contingency Operations for a total of 582 billion. That sustains the National Defense strategy and the figures conform to the budget levels found in the bipartisan budget agreement. When building this program that informs the budget that we are going to talk to you about today , secretary car...

2011 so i think the administration is moving down that course before they started hearing from the Environmental Community and you could see the state department was heading down its route with Environmental Impact statements. They said look this is not environmentally friendly. Only downward as things change in the political environment within the administration not on the public side. Poll after poll has shown 60 to 70 approval for the pipeline so i think its changed at the very top of the pol...

Seventy years after it was introduced, program budgeting remains controversial. Planning Program Budgeting (PPB) is based on the idea to shift focus of budgetary processes from control of inputs to producing measurable results. Yet aspirations and outcomes have not matched up.