Reprogramming Efforts in the Department of Defense: Politics and Patterns from 1999-2024

• In Event: Bureaucratic Discretion: Measurement, Decisions, and Outcomes

Brief Overview

Using a novel dataset of all DoD reprogramming actions from 1999-2024, we explore how military operations, elections, and divided government shape reprogramming and how various actors balance budget efficiency and accountability for national defense.

Authors

• Heidi Brockmann Demarest, United States Military Academy, West Point

• Scott Limbocker, United States Military Academy, West Point