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How Decision Lens Empowers Efficient, Effective Government Spending
AI in Government: Closing the Data & Infrastructure Readiness Gap
The Opportunities and Challenges of the President's Cost Efficiency EO
How Agencies Can Rapidly Achieve Efficiency Readiness

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7 "Dos and Don'ts" for Efficiency Reviews

The new administration has quickly followed through on their stated objective of addressing efficiency in government. He...

The Opportunities and Challenges of the President's Cost Efficiency EO-featured-image
The Opportunities and Challenges of the President's Cost Efficiency EO

Issued on February 26, 2025 the EO clarifies expectations around payment justification but focuses on symptoms rather th...

How Agencies Can Rapidly Achieve Efficiency Readiness-featured-image
How Agencies Can Rapidly Achieve Efficiency Readiness

With a renewed focus on efficiency and transparency, agencies are under pressure to quickly defend their budgets and ens...

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AI in Government: Closing the Data & Infrastructure Readiness Gap-featured-image
AI in Government: Closing the Data & Infrastructure Readiness Gap

AI is transforming government, but critical work remains. Learn why data modernization and infrastructure are key to AI ...

How Agencies Can Rapidly Achieve Efficiency Readiness-featured-image
How Agencies Can Rapidly Achieve Efficiency Readiness

With a renewed focus on efficiency and transparency, agencies are under pressure to quickly defend their budgets and ens...

How Decision Lens Empowers Efficient, Effective Government Spending-featured-image
How Decision Lens Empowers Efficient, Effective Government Spending

Highlights how government can use Decision Lens to drive more efficient, effective spending as DOGE reviews budgets.

The Opportunities and Challenges of the President's Cost Efficiency EO-featured-image
The Opportunities and Challenges of the President's Cost Efficiency EO

Issued on February 26, 2025 the EO clarifies expectations around payment justification but focuses on symptoms rather th...

How Decision Lens Empowers Efficient, Effective Government Spending-featured-image
How Decision Lens Empowers Efficient, Effective Government Spending

Highlights how government can use Decision Lens to drive more efficient, effective spending as DOGE reviews budgets.

 Traditional UFR Process
Overcoming the The Hidden and Not So Hidden Challenges of the Traditional UFR Process

Unlock efficiencies, enhance transparency, and improve resource allocation in military budgeting by modernizing the unfu...

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Turbocharging Decision Lens to Transform Government Planning and Budgeting

For government agencies looking to transform how they prioritize, plan, and fund, the Diversis investment in Decision Le...

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The Future of PPBE: Part 3 - It's all about Advana

The Commission mentioned Advana many times throughout the report. The idea behind Advana is to have it serve as the ‘dat...

The Future of PPBE: Part 2 - The Multi-Front Reform Battle-featured-image
The Future of PPBE: Part 2 - The Multi-Front Reform Battle

PPBE reform will require change across oversight, technology, culture, and process to be successful. In this article ser...

The Future of PPBE: Part 1 - Agility-featured-image
The Future of PPBE: Part 1 - Agility

The goal of PPBE reform is to add agility to long range planning and, just as importantly, to year of execution funding ...

PPBE Report: Impact on Planners, FMers and Comptrollers-featured-image
PPBE Report: Impact on Planners, FMers and Comptrollers

The impact of the findings will be significant for everyone involved with the prioritizing, planning, and funding elemen...

The Six Guiding Principles of a Next Generation Defense Budget System: It Must Be Continuous-featured-image
The Six Guiding Principles of a Next Generation Defense Budget System: It Must Be Continuous

To counter the threat of China, the United States must adopt a more agile and forward-looking approach to defense budget...

The Six Guiding Principles of a Next Generation Defense Budget System: It Must Deliver Mission Alignment-featured-image
The Six Guiding Principles of a Next Generation Defense Budget System: It Must Deliver Mission Alignment

To attain mission alignment and make informed resource decisions, we must simultaneously consider three distinct time ho...

The Six Guiding Principles of a Next Generation Defense Budget System: It Must Be Enterprise-Wide-featured-image
The Six Guiding Principles of a Next Generation Defense Budget System: It Must Be Enterprise-Wide

Integrated planning involves taking a comprehensive view of the enterprise to identify and influence key factors that co...

The Criticality of Data-Driven Decision-Making in Defense Budgeting-featured-image
The Criticality of Data-Driven Decision-Making in Defense Budgeting

Data-driven decision-making is emerging as a critical approach for defense budgeting, enabling the DoD to make informed ...

The Six Guiding Principles of a Next Generation Budget Defense System: It Must Embed Transparency and Accountability-featured-image
The Six Guiding Principles of a Next Generation Budget Defense System: It Must Embed Transparency and Accountability

Striking a balance between providing Congress with oversight and allowing for greater flexibility in response to changin...

Transforming Government Planning: The Power of Public Sector-Focused Software Vendors-featured-image
Transforming Government Planning: The Power of Public Sector-Focused Software Vendors

By partnering with software vendors exclusively focused on serving the public sector, governments can unlock numerous be...

The Six Guiding Principles of a Next Generation Budget Defense System: It Must Be Natively Collaborative-featured-image
The Six Guiding Principles of a Next Generation Budget Defense System: It Must Be Natively Collaborative

The system must embrace transparency and foster a culture of collaboration. Promoting open dialogue and interdisciplinar...

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The Six Guiding Principles of a Next Generation Budget Defense System: It Must be Powered by Leading-Edge Technology

The DoD must embrace a new paradigm in defense budgeting, one that is powered by leading-edge technology and prioritizes...

Overview: Six Guiding Principles of a Next-Generation Defense Budget System Whitepaper-featured-image
Overview: Six Guiding Principles of a Next-Generation Defense Budget System Whitepaper

Overview of ways to improve the current defense budget system and the PPBE process.

Automation: The Secret Weapon in the Public Sector’s War for Talent-featured-image
Automation: The Secret Weapon in the Public Sector’s War for Talent

Automation allows organizations to operate more efficiently and effectively by eliminating humans from engaging in repet...

PPBE Commission Recommendation: Congress should require the DoD to utilize scenario-based prioritization budgeting tools-featured-image
PPBE Commission Recommendation: Congress should require the DoD to utilize scenario-based prioritization budgeting tools

Requiring budget scenario tools to understand and prioritize potential spending impacts resulting from changing world ev...

Air Force readiness requires stepping away from the spreadsheets-featured-image
Air Force readiness requires stepping away from the spreadsheets

Learn about the impact on military commands, when program planning and budget execution are offset from their direct aut...

DoD PPBE Data Problems Can Be Fixed Now-featured-image
DoD PPBE Data Problems Can Be Fixed Now

While there are systemic issues with PPBE, the article highlights that improving data is at the crux of a better approac...

Why data visibility, granularity, and accuracy are keys to better PPBE-featured-image
Why data visibility, granularity, and accuracy are keys to better PPBE

Learn about the challenges the current PPBE process poses for reprogramming funds during the year of execution.

How the Army will balance contingency and long-term needs-featured-image
How the Army will balance contingency and long-term needs

Learn about the challenges the PPBE process poses when it comes to modernizing planning and how you can overcome them wi...

Interview: Space Force Association DC Chapter VP Marketing - Josh Martin-featured-image
Interview: Space Force Association DC Chapter VP Marketing - Josh Martin

An interview with Space Force Association DC Chapter VP, Josh Martin.

Modernizing PPBE: DoD budget process must keep up with real needs-featured-image
Modernizing PPBE: DoD budget process must keep up with real needs

On March 22, Tom Temin of Federal News Network interviewed Juliet Beyler the Executive Director for U.S. Naval Forces Eu...

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AI in Government: Closing the Data & Infrastructure Readiness Gap-featured-image
AI in Government: Closing the Data & Infrastructure Readiness Gap

AI is transforming government, but critical work remains. Learn why data modernization and infrastructure are key to AI ...

Agile Decision-Making
We’re Out of Time: Agile Decision-Making for Great Power Competition

Learn how cutting-edge software solutions can drive efficiency, enhance strategic agility, and optimizing resource alloc...

Digital Tools Transportation Planning
How Digital Tools Are Shaping the Future of Transportation Planning

Discover how digital tools like automation, data analytics, and GIS are transforming transportation planning, improving ...

Fund

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How Outdated Tools Hinder Air Force Resourcing in Great Power Competition-featured-image
How Outdated Tools Hinder Air Force Resourcing in Great Power Competition

Explore how outdated tools hinder Air Force resourcing in Great Power Competition and how modern software solutions can ...

Implementing Transparent Funding Processes for Science and Technology -featured-image
Implementing Transparent Funding Processes for Science and Technology 

Learn how to implement transparent funding processes for science & technology, enhancing fairness, accountability, a...

Objective Prioritization in Funding Decisions 
Driving Innovation: The Importance of Objective Prioritization in Funding Decisions 

Objective prioritization in S&T funding is key to driving innovation & maximizing ROI. Learn how data-driven dec...

Data & Reporting

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AI in Government: Closing the Data & Infrastructure Readiness Gap-featured-image
AI in Government: Closing the Data & Infrastructure Readiness Gap

AI is transforming government, but critical work remains. Learn why data modernization and infrastructure are key to AI ...

Implementing Transparent Funding Processes for Science and Technology -featured-image
Implementing Transparent Funding Processes for Science and Technology 

Learn how to implement transparent funding processes for science & technology, enhancing fairness, accountability, a...

Objective Prioritization in Funding Decisions 
Driving Innovation: The Importance of Objective Prioritization in Funding Decisions 

Objective prioritization in S&T funding is key to driving innovation & maximizing ROI. Learn how data-driven dec...

PPBE Reform

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Top 5 Challenges in POM Planning and How to Overcome Them -featured-image
Top 5 Challenges in POM Planning and How to Overcome Them 

Discover the top 5 challenges in POM planning and strategies to overcome them. Enhance data management, stakeholder coll...

ROI of Pom Planning
Understanding the ROI of Implementing Commercial Software for POM Planning 

In today's fast-paced environment, effective POM planning is critical to ensuring that agencies allocate their budgets w...

pom planning success
Why Effective POM Planning is Crucial for DoD Success

Effective POM planning is vital for the DoD, ensuring efficient resource allocation, decision-making, and alignment with...

Government Efficiency

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7 "Dos and Don'ts" for Efficiency Reviews

The new administration has quickly followed through on their stated objective of addressing efficiency in government. He...

The Opportunities and Challenges of the President's Cost Efficiency EO-featured-image
The Opportunities and Challenges of the President's Cost Efficiency EO

Issued on February 26, 2025 the EO clarifies expectations around payment justification but focuses on symptoms rather th...

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