The Senate Appropriations Committee is clear in its version of the fiscal year 2025 defense spending bill that it does not support the kind of broad overhaul recommended by a key reform commission to update the Pentagon's sprawling, 1960s-era budgeting system. The Planning, Programing, Budgeting and Execution Reform Commission, which was first established by Congress in the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act, released a final report in March totaling nearly 400 pages with 28 individual recommendations, including the...
