Defense Budget
- Presentation
Challenges of Adapting DoD’s Acquisition Portfolio to a New Defense Strategy
Presentation by David Arthur, an analyst in CBO's National Security Division, at the Naval Postgraduate School's 19th Annual Acquisition Research Symposium.
- Presentation
Navy Shipbuilding: Prospects for Building a Larger Fleet
Presentation by Eric J. Labs, an analyst in CBO’s National Security Division, at the 37th Annual Spring Meeting of the Marine Machinery Association.
- Presentation
Navy Shipbuilding: Congressional Perspectives and the Navy’s 2022 Plan
Presentation by Eric J. Labs, an analyst in CBO’s National Security Division, at the Surface Navy Association’s 34th National Symposium.
- Report
Long-Term Costs of the Administration’s 2022 Defense Budget
CBO analyzes DoD’s plans for 2022 as presented in the Biden Administration’s 2022 budget request and projects how those plans would affect defense costs through 2031. Those costs would increase by 10 percent over that period, CBO projects.
- Report
Illustrative Options for National Defense Under a Smaller Defense Budget
CBO examined three broad options for reconfiguring the military if funding for the Department of Defense was reduced by $1 trillion (in 2022 dollars), or 14 percent, over the next 10 years.
- Presentation
Navy Shipbuilding: Searching for a Path to a Larger and More Distributed Fleet
Presentation by Eric J. Labs, an analyst in CBO’s National Security Division, to the American Shipbuilding Suppliers Association.
- Report
An Analysis of the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2022 Shipbuilding Plan
CBO estimates that the Navy’s total shipbuilding budget would average between $25 billion and $33 billion (in 2021 dollars) per year through 2052 to build a force of between 398 and 512 manned ships and unmanned vessels.
- Report
Alternative Approaches to Adjusting Military Cash Pay
CBO examines the implications of adjusting military basic pay with an alternative wage index and adjusting all components of regular cash pay with the employment cost index.
- Presentation
Approaches for Adjusting Military Cash Pay
Presentation by Adebayo Adedeji and Heidi Golding, analysts in CBO's National Security Division, at the Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International.
- Presentation
The Capacity of the Navy’s Shipyards to Maintain Its Submarines
Presentation by R. Derek Trunkey and Eric J. Labs, analysts in CBO's National Security Division, at the Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International.