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DoD's budget challenges will take years to fix, but reform commission says now's the time to start

Published: Aug. 17, 2023, 7:14 a.m.

b'The expert panel Congress assembled to find fixes to the Pentagon\\u2019s archaic planning and budgeting process won\\u2019t deliver its final prescription for reform until next spring. But its members say there are at least some steps the Defense Department and Congress should start taking right now, particularly in light of the fact that fixing what\\u2019s wrong is certain to be a years-long effort.\\nThe Commission on Planning, Programming Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) Reform published an interim report this week, previewing 10 of the possible recommendations it might make in its final edition next March, and urging lawmakers and DoD to start taking at least some specific steps toward improving the budget system right away.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'