The next is the Nov. 22, 2024, Congressional Analysis Service In Focus report, Protection Primer: Future Years Protection Program.
From the report
The Future Years Protection Program (FYDP, generally pronounced “fye-dip”) is a projection of the forces, assets, and packages to help Division of Protection (DOD) operations. The FYDP is compiled yearly and usually accomplished throughout the programming section of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) course of. DOD updates the projection throughout the budgeting section to mirror DOD’s ultimate funding selections offered within the annual President’s funds request.
The FYDP displays the deliberate allocation of DOD assets to main strategic efforts over a multiyear interval. In line with the division’s Future Years Protection Program (FYDP) Construction Handbook, the FYDP is meant partly to hyperlink DOD’s inner overview construction for packages with Congress’s overview construction for assets, together with funding.
The FYDP initiatives DOD funding, manpower, and power construction wants over a five-year interval. The projection is usually depicted with protection assets for the 2 earlier fiscal years and power construction estimates for the three subsequent fiscal years. For instance, the FY2021 FYDP displays FY2019 and FY2020 appropriations, the present funds yr estimate (FY2021) as a part of the five-year program (FY2021-FY2025), and the estimated power construction by means of FY2028.
Primarily used as a planning software, the FYDP permits DOD and the army providers to plan for anticipated adjustments to packages or priorities. Such adjustments could embody reallocating funding for a significant protection acquisition program transitioning from analysis and growth to procurement; shifting funding from a number of packages to a bigger, higher-priority procurement; or figuring out funding for an rising precedence anticipated to require resourcing over a interval of a number of years.
DOD Monetary Administration Regulation describes the FYDP as “a collection of reviews that report and show useful resource selections” throughout the PPBE cycle. FYDP knowledge are saved in a relational database. Customers can enter, replace, and examine their group’s portion of the FYDP by means of a web-based software hosted on the division’s categorized community.
Title 10, Part 221, of the US Code (hereinafter U.S.C.), stipulates that the Secretary of Protection shall submit a FYDP to Congress along side the President’s funds request. A categorized model of the FYDP is mostly submitted to the congressional committees with jurisdiction over protection issues. Part 1042 of the Nationwide Protection Authorization Act for Fiscal 12 months 2018 (P.L. 115-91) amended 10 U.S.C. §221 partly to require the Secretary to submit an unclassified digital model of the FYDP. Nonetheless, whereas the construction of the FYDP is unclassified, the precise FYDP knowledge stays categorized. DOD has proposed eradicating the statutory requirement to submit an unclassified FYDP to keep away from inadvertently revealing delicate details about weapons growth, power construction, and strategic plans.
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