The Pentagon is mulling the release of new Defense Planning Guidance as early as February as part of an ongoing effort to “reset” the planning, programming, budgeting and execution (PPBE) process by fiscal year 2017, according to an internal briefing obtained by InsideDefense.com. The DPG “is currently consolidated and issued in the spring/early summer” when the military services are building their six-year spending plans known as program objective memoranda (POMs), though the Defense Department believes that the guidance “could...
