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This office is responsible for managing the overall budget formulation and execution for the Department of Defense. It is responsible to evaluate, develop, and integrate strategic goals into program guidance and decisions that update the FYDP and issue budget/fiscal guidance to formulate and prepare DoD’s submission to the President’s Budget. This encompasses issuing budget guidance in conjunction with programming plans. It requires coordination efforts to develop and resolves programmatic issues. The development of budget through the formulation phase to include activities that supports the budget hearing review with OSD and OMB. This review process addresses all perspectives including those of the Chairman of the Joint Staff, Under Secretaries of Defense, Service Secretaries, and OMB are considered as an integral part of the decision-making process. This phase ensures that the planning goals and programming objectives are consistent with the National Military and National Security strategies. They also identify and focus on priorities that will be used to develop fiscal and program guidance. Once the above is developed guidance is issued, then they collect the POMs and BES from the military services and defense agencies for review. Each program and budget information is based on the programs and fiscal guidance contained in the JPG; and includes the prior, current, and two budget fiscal years. Budget estimates are collected from Components and reviewed by the OSD and OMB to ensure proper pricing and reasonableness, and excitability. This office with OMB conducts budget hearings with components to ensure that the budget estimates are in alignment with the areas of interest of the Administration and maintain tracking of ongoing Congressional action that could impact. The Major Budget Issues are identified for resolution. Based on the results of the evaluation, draft Program Budget Decisions (PDBs) are written for review and coordination. This occurs between the time the President's Budget is submitted to Congress and up to and including the time that appropriations are enacted. This activity also captures the markups and markdowns as result of the budget negotiation between the Congress, DoD, and OMB. Finals changes to the DoD budget, including passbacks are incorporated to the final budget submission to OMB for inclusion to the President's Budget, which is submitted to Congress for funding. The phase called Budget Execution is the allocating funds, monitoring and executing programs and applicable funds during the current budget year. During the budget year the office captures economic assumption as key factor in determining the appropriate funding for a specific program. It realigns funds from the original Congressional enactment or subsequent distribution of funds to new areas through reprogramming, transfers, rescission deferrals and cancellations. |