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David E. Mosher, CBO's Director of National Security Analysis, testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Personnel.
- Blog Post
To enhance its work for the Congress, CBO is looking for new research on the implications of the military’s use of in-kind compensation, and on the causes and future evolution of sector-specific inflation.
- Presentation
The Defense Logistics Agency buys fuel and charges the military services for it. But volatile fuel costs can cause changes in rates that create budgetary challenges for the services. CBO examined new ways to budget for and price fuel.
- Report
Two Navy databases, DECKPLATE and AMSRR, track aircraft availability. Looking at Super Hornet aircraft, CBO found AMSRR’s availability rates better predict actual flying hours. DECKPLATE’s predictions are similar if data errors are fixed.
- Report
CBO estimates that plans for U.S. nuclear forces, as described in the fiscal year 2023 budget and supporting documents, would cost $756 billion over the 2023–2032 period, $122 billion more than CBO’s 2021 estimate for the 2021–2030 period.
- Presentation
Presentation by Adebayo Adedeji, an analyst in CBO’s National Security Division, at the 2023 Conference of the Western Economic Association International.
- Cost Estimate
Letter to the Honorable Mike Rogers
- Cost Estimate
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on April 26, 2023
- Cost Estimate
As introduced in the House of Representatives on March 1, 2023
- Report
CBO provides an introduction to the basics of satellites and constellations, describes the reasons for and consequences of the projected growth in large constellations, and discusses the costs of fielding those constellations.