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	Budgeting, Financial Management, and Acquisition Reform in the U.S. Department of Defense Lawrence R. Jones, Naval Postgraduate School Jerry L. McCaffery, Naval Postgraduate School ORDER ONLINE Paperback $39.99 ISBN: 978-1-59311-870-9 Hardcover $73.99 ISBN: 978-1-59311-871-6 We use Paypal for online orders. Click here for more information about ordering from IAP. RELATED TITLES Budgeting and Financial Management for National Defense Budgeting and Financial Management in the Federal Government Co-Laboratories of Democracy: How People Harness Their Collective Wisdon to Create the Future International Public Financial Management Reform: Progress, Contradictions, and Challenges Managing the Electronic Government: From Vision to Practice The Legacy of June Pallot: Public Sector Financial Management Reform The Tax Revolt and State and Local Governments From Bureaucracy to Hyperarchy in Netcentric and Quick Learning Organizations: Exploring Future Public Management Practice Communicable Crises: Prevention, Response, and Recovery in the Global Arena Challenges in Volunteer Management RELATED CATEGORIES > Public & Non-profit Management 2008. A volume in the series: Research in Public Management. Series Editor(s): Lawrence R. Jones, Naval Postgraduate School and Nancy C. Roberts, Naval Postgraduate School Search inside this book: In this book we introduce the basics of the federal budget process, provide an historical background on the foundation and development of the budget process, indicate how defense spending may be measured and how it impacts the economy, describe and analyze how Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES) operates and should function to produce the annual defense budget proposal to Congress, analyze the role of Congress in debating and deciding on defense appropriations and the politics of the budgetary process including the use of supplemental appropriations to fund national defense, analyze budget execution dynamics, identify the principal participants in the defense budget process in the Pentagon and military commands, assess federal and Department of Defense (DoD) financial management and business process challenges and issues, and describe the processes used to resource acquisition of defense war fighting assets, including reforms in acquisition and linkages between PPBES and the defense acquisition process. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments. List of Tables, Figures, and Exhibits. 1. Budgeting in the Federal Government. 2. History and Development of Federal Government Budgeting: Executive and Legislative Branch Competition. 3. Budgeting for National Defense. 4. National Defense Spending and the Economy. 5. The Planning, Programming, Budgeting, Execution System. 6. Congress and the Defense Budget: From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism. 7. Supplemental Appropriations for National Defense. 8. Defense Budget Execution. 9. Budget Process Participants: The Pentagon. 10. Budget Process Participants: The Commands. 11. Financial Management and Defense Business Processes. 12. Budgeting and Managing Weapons Acquisition. 13. Improving Linkages between Resource Management and Acquisition Systems. 14. Budgeting and Acquisition Business Process Reform. Epilogue. Appendix A: Definition of Acronyms. Appendix B: Reducing Shipbuilding Costs. Bibliography. About the Authors