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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PLANNING, PROGRAMMING, BUDGETING, AND EXECUTION. (PPBE) PROCESS / ARMY PLANNING, PROGRAMMING, BUDGETING, AND EXECUTION (PPBE) PROCESS . An Executive Primer . INTRODUCTION. Prior to embarking on a detailed discussion of our topic, we need to establish a few practical definitions. Resources are the people, equipment, land, facilities, and their necessary support funding. Planning provides a list of approved requirements that need resources. Requirements are established needs justifying the timely allocation of resources to achieve a capability to accomplish approved military objectives, missions, or tasks. Programming groups the requirements into logical decision sets, allocates six-year resources among those sets, and selects those that fit within the resource limits. Budgeting focuses on the first two years of the six-year program and rearranges the programs under congressional appropriation groupings and submits the resulting two-year budget to Congress for review and approval of the first year.

2 BACKGROUND Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara established the DoD Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS) in 1962. The system as we know it today is dramatically different

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