Riigikaitse haldamise planeerimis-, programmimis- ja eelarvestamissüsteem
Planning, Programming and Budgeting in Defence Management

Summary/Abstract: The PPB system is a set of rules, procedures, and techniques introduced for the specific purpose of improving high level planning. Its product is a multi-year budget, which lists the programs and/or major activities of an organization, and assigns all costs associated with each. The system enables the decision- maker to see the future implications of today’s choices and to evaluate the organization’s progress toward its stated objectives. The PPBS combines systems analysis and program budgeting. The purpose of the PPBS is to support informed and responsible decision-making about the allocation of resources to meet crucial security challenges, i.e. ensure that the Secretary of Defense could consider several alternatives in which costs, forces, and strategies had been considered together; and to promote consensus on strategic objectives and priorities. The instrument of choice to pursue these goals is program budgeting that ensures orientation of the defense organization to quantifiable outputs projected over extended time horizon. The PPBS – in order to support informed decision making at the top levels of defense management – is based on the following central ideas: • It seeks to develop a framework of defense programs that should guide, based on explicit criteria, the identification, modification, development and sustainment of alternative ways and means to meet national objectives. • The PPBS should ensure credible analytical support for top-level decision makers to choose among balanced and feasible solutions. This analysis should look several years into the future and be focused on potentially multi-service force package output capabilities across broader mission areas instead of service-centered, and consequently environment-limited, options. • The backbone of the process is a comprehensive plan that looks several years into the future, incorporates key activities and milestones from the established program framework, and provides, based on output-focused analytical support, a blueprint of the dynamics of the outcomes of current decisions. • Management of the PPBS is based on participatory management and centralized decision-making. The PPBS system consists of three phases. The planning phase addresses national security and defense concerns in medium-term framework. In particular, broad national and derivative military security objectives and policies to attain these objectives are defined, military responses to identified security challenges are developed, outlines and priorities of military organization tailored to meet set objectives are established, and milestone activities to develop or sustain military capabilities required to implement established policy and carry out strategy are identified. The programming phase encompasses, first, the development of fiscally constrained service program proposals, representing a comprehensive and detailed expression of the total requirements to accomplish the service mission set in planning

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