Officials Eye Tweaking of Core DOD Management Tool

By Sebastian Sprenger / June 13, 2008 at 5:00 AM
Pentagon officials are eyeing an expansion of the Defense Department's bedrock resource management mechanism by adding a formal process for assessing how well the department's plans, programs and budgets help meet national security goals, sources tell InsideDefense.com . Officials in the office of Pentagon Comptroller Tina Jonas have formed a task force charged with proposing a new version of the decades-old planning, programming and budgeting and execution system (PPBS), according to a defense official. Jonas, in an April memo, asked...

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