The Defense Department is working to implement internal reforms to its 1960s-era budget planning and execution process, but the Pentagon is still asking Congress for greater spending flexibility that appropriators have thus far declined to provide. The department released a report today updating its work on 26 initiatives to reform its planning, programming, budget and execution system, noting each is based on recommendations from the now-defunct PPBE Reform Commission and will be implemented in a “phased and iterative manner” by...