Download or read book Improving the Army Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System (PPBES) The Programming Phase written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1997 the Army asked that RAND Arroyo Center assist in the reengineering of The Army Plan (TAP). The Army also reinstituted strategic planning and the product was the Army Strategic Planning Guidance (ASPG), which provides strategic guidance to TAP. Planning and programming in the Army are centralized within the Department of the Army's headquarters. This document discusses the Arroyo Center's work on TAP.