Samenvatting
This paper discusses the planning-programming-budgeting system (PPBS) at the federal level from a government-wide point of view. In so doing, it (a) briefly traces the history of PPB, first in the Department of Defense and then in the civilian agencies; (b) comments on some of the difficulties of applying the Defense model of PPB to the civilian agencies; (c) describes the current status of PPB, including both its problems and its accomplishments; and (d) speculates about the future of PPB.