No one particularly likes the way the Defense Department and Congress handle the DoD budgeting process. It’s rigid, inflexible, and very slow. But the PPBE process, as it’s called, has been encoded into the DNA of the Defense bureaucracy for more than 60 years, and turning the ship around is going to be very tough.   That’s why there are at least two panels of experts who’ll be working on the problem over the next year or more: one chartered by Congress, and one organized by the American Society of Military Comptrollers. On this week’s show, Jared Serbu talks with several participants in the latter group:  -- Michael Conlin, former DoD chief data officer and chairman of the ASMC PPBE Reform Task Force   -- George Kovatch, former DoD deputy comptroller and ASMC task force member  -- Maj. Gen. Cameron Holt (ret.), former deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for contracting, and member of the ASMC task force  -- Rich Brady, a retired Marine Corps colonel and the CEO of ASMC