Introduction On August 15, the PPBE Reform Commission released its interim report which included potential recommendations and findings to date. If enacted fully or even in part, the impact of these f...
NOVEMBER 28, 2023 - ARLINGTON, VA Decision Lens is pleased to announce that it has been selected by Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Com...
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NewsARLINGTON, VA – November 8, 2023 Decision Lens is excited to announce that it has been selected by the National Nuclear Security Administrat...
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NewsOctober 12, 2023 - Arlington, VA - Decision Lens is excited to announce that it has been selected by the Commander, Naval Information Forces...
NewsSeptember 21, 2023 - Arlington, VA Decision Lens, the integrated planning software company modernizing how government prioritizes, plans, an...
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NewsToday, Decision Lens, developers of software modernizing how government prioritizes, plans, and funds announced the U.S. Patent and Trademar...
NewsIntroduction On August 15, the PPBE Reform Commission released its interim report which included potential recommendations and findings to d...
Financial ManagementAugust 22, 2023 – Decision Lens has won a Technology Excellence Award for Innovation from a leading global publisher of defense news. The Ai...
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Planning PrioritizationMany federal agencies struggle with “Loudest voice in the room” syndrome, where individual biases, subjective opinions, and/or political inf...
Data & Reporting Decision MakingARLINGTON, VA – July 13, 2023
NewsArlington, VA – July 4, 2023 – Decision Lens is launching its most ambitious charity drive yet in support of Veterans. Building on the succe...
NewsPlatform Features In Part 1, we explored the benefits of using Decision Lens to modernize how the public sector plans, prioritizes, and fund...
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NewsIntroduction This article is part of a series of articles focusing on the elements a next generation budget defense system must include to o...
Financial ManagementIntroduction This article is part of a series that explores the critical components of a next-generation defense budget system designed to t...
Financial ManagementSt Louis, MO – June 1, 2023
NewsIntroduction This article is part of a series of articles focusing on the elements a next generation budget defense system must include to o...
Financial ManagementIntroduction In today's complex and rapidly evolving security landscape, the Department of Defense (DoD) faces a constant challenge to alloc...
Decision MakingIntroduction This article is part of a series of articles focusing on the elements a next generation budget defense system must include to o...
Financial ManagementIntroduction As the world continues to grow more complex, the public sector faces significant challenges in delivering timely, effective ser...
Planning Digital TransformationARLINGTON, VA – May 18, 2023
NewsIntroduction This article is part of a series focusing on the elements a next-generation defense budget system must include to overcome the ...
Financial ManagementMay 11, 2023 – Since 1904, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission has recognized and supported civilian heroes.The nomination and awarding proces...
NewsThis article is part of a series of articles focusing on the elements a next generation budget defense system must include to overcome the c...
Financial ManagementIntroduction “We are surrounded by data but starved for insights.”
Data & Reporting Decision Making Digital TransformationIntroduction Leaders across the public sector understand that, in every decision, risk is inherently a factor – and with that comes varying ...
Decision MakingWe can all share stories of difficult organizational dynamics and the way they impact the work we do. This is especially true in the governm...
Decision Making Digital Transformation"Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.".
Decision MakingARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES, March 7, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Decision Lens software is now available to customers via Second Fron...
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Decision MakingOverview If you have seen a demonstration or have worked with Decision Lens several years ago you know it excelled at collaborative prioriti...
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NewsAccording to the Army Data Plan, “The digital Army will be fueled by data and data analytics. The right data, at the right time, at the righ...
Decision Making Digital TransformationHere in the Product Development team at Decision Lens, the team is constantly running at 100 mph developing new features, fixing bugs, and m...
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NewsOctober 19, 2022 – Decision Lens software is now available to customers via Second Front Systems (2F)’s Impact Level 4 (IL4) Production Envi...
NewsOctober 13, 2022 – Decision Lens has won an innovator award and its software has been commended by a leading global publisher of defense new...
News“Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation” – Dean Kamen Success in achieving an organ...
Digital TransformationNow more than ever our adversaries are posing a real threat to our economy, sovereignty, and security. As other countries are investing in r...
Financial ManagementArlington, VA - September 1, 2022 Decision Lens is excited to announce the appointment of Michael Browne to Senior Vice President. Mr. Brown...
NewsThe Problem Army leaders said it most directly, ‘We are in a war for talent’.
Digital TransformationJuly 27, 2022 – The Program Executive Office for Tactical Aircraft Programs (PEO(T)) awarded a contract June 2022 to Decision Lens to sustai...
NewsCongress has made improving the financial system of the DoD a main priority to eliminate the acquisition “Valley of Death” and allow the U.S...
Financial Management“When you do this with pencils and erasers and those kinds of things, it becomes challenging to really present options and present risk and ...
Planning PrioritizationAs the fervor for PPBE modernization increases, Federal News Network and Decision Lens continued their series on Modernizing Federal Governm...
Financial ManagementARLINGTON, VA – May 2, 2022
NewsAccording to Google Trends, searches for the term PPBE (The DoD’s Programming, Planning, Budget, and Execution process) nearly doubled betwe...
Digital Transformation Financial Management“We're frequently working on three budgets at the same time” – Douglas Bush, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and ...
Financial ManagementToday, Decision Lens, the developer of integrated planning software modernizing how government prioritizes, plans, and funds, announced its ...
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NewsOn March 22, Tom Temin of Federal News Network interviewed Juliet Beyler the Executive Director for U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa’s fo...
Financial ManagementMarch 22, 2022 – Arlington, Virginia Today, Decision Lens, the developer of integrated planning software modernizing how government prioriti...
NewsMarch 15, 2022 - Arlington, VA Today, Decision Lens, the developer of integrated planning software modernizing how government prioritizes, p...
News“Planners are in a permanently reactive state because of these antiquated processes,” said Dan Saaty, Decision Lens co-founder and Chief Sci...
Financial ManagementUnited States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) The United States Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) is responsible for r...
Digital Transformation Financial ManagementAgencies within the Federal Government have long seen the need to change how they operate, but the obstacles to overcome in moving from manu...
Digital TransformationIn 2021, we set out to make Decision Lens easier to use, more powerful, and to expand our financial management capabilities. We are proud to...
NewsJanuary 28, 2022 Decision Lens, the integrated planning software company modernizing how government prioritizes, plans, and funds today anno...
NewsWhat is Integrated Planning? Integrated planning is a cross-functional process that ensures all stakeholders are involved at the right time ...
PlanningWhat You Need to Know About Section 11204 of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act The recently passed Infrastructure bill presents an ...
PrioritizationHave you been in this situation? On Monday leadership asks for a Friday presentation. There are many moving parts, manual processes, stakeho...
Data & Reporting Decision MakingWhat is PPBS? The Planning Programming Budgeting System (PPBS), also frequently referred to as PPBE, is a resource allocation system that su...
Financial ManagementSpace Force, the newest branch of the Armed forces and the first completely digital agency in the United States released their digital visio...
Digital TransformationDear Decision Lens Customers, Partners, and Prospects, Today, I am excited to announce the relaunch of the Decision Lens brand. Our new dire...
NewsThough private industry has made great strides automating their processes over the last 20 years, the public sector is still struggling with...
Data & ReportingWhat is an Innovation Life Cycle? An “Innovation Lifecycle” is the different stages of the innovation process, including the conditions and ...
Decision MakingThe most effective planners track progress across multiple time horizons. These individuals are equipped to ensure the right investments are...
PlanningInnovation is a term that gets used quite often to mean various things. When talking about government innovation specifically, it is importa...
Federal News Network recently released an article regarding DoD’s mandated plan to consider climate change in upcoming decision-making. This...
Decision MakingWhat is Strategic Planning? Strategic planning is a form of organizational management that helps an organization define what it is, what it ...
PlanningAcross the Federal Government there are many challenges in getting to the point where a budget is ready for submission, including, time crun...
Financial ManagementThe United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is the private, non-profit organization that serves as the nation’s Organ Procurement and Transp...
PrioritizationWhat is the POM cycle (Program Objective Memorandum cycle)? The Program Objective Memorandum (POM) is part of the Programming Phase of the P...
Financial ManagementLike Google and other silicon valley tech companies, Decision Lens has its own brand of time allotted so that developers can work on innovat...
NewsWhat is PPBE? The Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process serves as the Department of Defense's (DoD) internal method...
Financial ManagementThe push for real-time analytics across the DoD has reached a fever pitch. Though private industry has made great strides over the last 20 y...
Financial ManagementHow are different state and local entities handling the push for IT Centralization? What are some successes that have come about as a result...
PlanningCharneta Samms, Chief, Plans and Programs, Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM), Army Research Laboratory (ARL); and Gregory Lit...
Financial ManagementDecision Lens grades its plans because intuitively we know that making choices yields consequences. Our grading system is a way of measuring...
PrioritizationAt our recent webinar, “Improve Mid-Year Review Reporting- An Insider’s View”, 316th Wing Inspector General Lt. Col. Benjamin Milarch and De...
Data & ReportingAre you still sending and receiving dozens of Excel spreadsheets to keep track of your project submissions and requirements? Although most o...
Decision MakingUSDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s (APHIS) Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) program safeguards U.S. agriculture and natu...
Decision MakingNow more than ever, S&T planners are tasked with the enormous challenge of rapidly solving for the world’s most pressing challenges and ...
PlanningOf the many stated priorities from DoD leaders over the past few decades, one in particular has simultaneously increased in both its importa...
Data & Reporting Decision Making.
Financial Management"The singular pain point in the process is really being able to line up true requirements in evaluating risks based on previously establishe...
Financial Management“To be successful, the U.S. Air Force must continue its future design work and accelerate the evolution and application of its operational c...
PlanningProject planning can be an exercise in futility. As soon as your best laid plans are mapped, a bump in the road steers you off course. Even ...
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The New Reality There aren't enough hours in the day, dollars in the bank, or people on the floor these days. You've been the lucky one desi...
Prioritization Financial ManagementContinuous planning is not only smarter than event-based planning, it's easier!!! Event-based planning creates an annual cycle of ramping up...
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We're Still Celebrating National Customer Service Week! To round out our interviews for the week, we met with Brent Peaden, a Senior Advisor...
NewsNational Customer Service Week Celebration Continues! Yesterday we highlighted the work of Analytics Advisor Marco Trigueros, in an insightf...
NewsIt's National Customer Service Week! Providing excellent customer service is something to strive for year round, but this week is an opportu...
NewsWritten by Bill Adams Amid this current Data Revolution, tech solutions to help you manage your massive amounts of project portfolio data ev...
Written by Katie Howell You've probably heard the advice that in order to be successful you have to "show up". But what does that mean in to...
Organizations often generate Strategic Plans to communicate the leadership’s objectives for the coming year or to convey a new vision. While...
Written by Jonathan Allen
PlanningPublic sector planning is an art and a science. Part of the art is getting all the various stakeholders to effectively participate in the de...
Planning PrioritizationWritten by Sanjay Nayar
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PlanningMass Transit has always been challenged by securing funding for all the maintenance, rehabilitation and new construction projects their comm...
PlanningSilos are necessary for companies to function and keep accountability and responsibility among each other. They tend to form when informatio...
Decision Making PlanningEvery year on June 14, the United States Army celebrates its inception in 1775. Today, the Army consists of over one million active duty ser...
NewsSuccessful businesses are constantly finding ways to streamline costs, eliminate waste and improve profitability levels. Stakeholders want a...
Financial ManagementThe DoD defines “readiness” as the ability of the U.S. military forces to fight and meet the demands of the National Military Strategy. It n...
Decision MakingCollaborative Transportation Planning Governance The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), enacted in 2012, was devise...
Capital planning tends to rely on very manual processes involving complex spreadsheets with data from disconnected sources. This often trans...
Making better business decisions is at the top of every successful business’ priority list. Decision Lens administers the collective knowled...
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) provides the standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, an...
NewsGreat ideas are meaningless if they translate into countless hours of creating detailed business and strategic plans with no follow through....
More than 47,000 bridges in the US have been identified as “structurally deficient” and in need of urgent rehabilitation, according to a rep...
Planning PrioritizationWith increased public pressures to protect water sources and supplies, countries are enforcing tougher water regulations and permit requirem...
Strategic alignment and optimizing dollars to maximize the performance of investments across asset classes is critical in facilities and inf...
Decision MakingFacilities Planning decisions are more complex than ever. The long-term implications that come with costly facility capital expenditures mak...
PlanningMaking agile, smart decisions with an analytic process drives the performance of your investments. Reducing facility costs, improving produc...
Organizations from all industries are investing in a new set of powerful software solutions focused on making smarter portfolio-level decisi...
Sometimes the hardest part of building the capital plan isn't massaging the numbers and prioritizing the projects. The most grueling challen...
Our very own Kevin Connor was featured on an Innovation Enterprise webcast about “Evaluating Risk & Reward in Innovation Project Selecti...
PrioritizationWhen you’re selling a software solution that most organizations haven’t ever heard of or seen before, you spend a lot of time evangelizing. ...
When technology is squarely at the center of your business differentiation, trying to find ways to cut costs OUT of technology can be an ard...
Financial ManagementPractitioner Series on Making Strategy Execution a Reality | Part 3 of 3 Part 1 | Part 2 Strategy Execution is a top-down process. It start...
Practitioner Series on Making Strategy Execution a Reality | Part 2 of 3 Part 1 | Part 3 It is very understandable (and common) to hear fro...
Practitioner Series on Making Strategy Execution a Reality | Part 1 of 3 Part 2 | Part 3 Governance – the overall structure and daily manage...
Decision MakingDecision Lens has worked side by side with many Departments of Transportation throughout the years, and we’ve picked up a few helpful tips a...
PrioritizationDecision Lens is excited to announce a new feature set: Dependencies The new Dependencies features are designed to support the way organizat...
NewsThe organizations we work with continue to struggle with some truly fundamental business needs. More often than not, these struggles center ...
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It is now easier than ever to specify costs for your alternatives and make use of our Suggest Schedule algorithm. Find and schedule your alt...
The Summer 2016 Release is live! With this release, Decision Lens makes data collection faster, increases transparency, and provides new ana...
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When making investment decisions, one of the most important factors is cost. If the cost is the leading criteria -- how you value that inves...
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Maps. Maps make everything better. Imagine the ability to see your entire global R&D portfolio on a map. Well, how would that help me? W...
It’s becoming an annual tradition at Decision Lens to put out an October release that makes the work (and lives) of our customers easier. Fo...
Oftentimes when planning your project pipelines you think your prioritizations are sound and you begin to feel safe. However, there are some...
Patch Release Notes are back with the latest and greatest developments, fixes, and new features! Here we go! First off, we have removed the ...
Great news everyone! The Decision Lens developers have been working hard on improving the performance of our solution and ensuring a continu...
We’re keeping you guys as up-to-date as possible with this week’s edition of “Patch Release Notes”. In an effort to make sure all of our use...
Happy day, happy day!!! New Decision Lens features are here today! Too much? Sorry, I just get really excited about the awesome work our dev...
If our customers are telling us anything these days, it’s that the IT area is in MOST need for the solutions we offer for prioritization. Yo...
It’s one of THOSE days again! One of THOSE days we can all be excited and revel in the power of Decision Lens. One of THOSE days we can be i...
There’s a lot of happy developers and marketers at Decision Lens HQ today. That’s because another release has hit the market and our custome...
With over 70 courses and dozens of hours of on-demand content, we are excited to let our users know that quietly, as of today, they have acc...
It’s a big day here at Decision Lens HQ. We’re excited to announce that our latest release is live and available to all of our customers. In...
It’s our pleasure to announce that last Friday, the first set of enhancements to the Fall 2013 release were put into production. All current...
Decision Lens is already the leader in prioritization and resource allocation solutions. For years, we’ve helped commercial, government, mil...