Defense Budget
- Presentation
The 2021 Outlook for Navy Shipbuilding: Prospects and Challenges in Building a Larger Fleet
Presentation by Eric J. Labs, an analyst in CBO’s National Security Division, at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2021 Defense Outlook and Commercial Aerospace Forum.
- Report
A Review of CBO’s Estimate of Spending From the Department of Defense’s Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund
In a cost estimate prepared in October 2000, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that spending for new health care benefits for military retirees would total about $57 billion over the 2003–2010 period; actual costs over that period were about $55 billion.
- Report
The Cost of the Navy’s New Frigate
By CBO’s calculations, the Navy’s new frigate could cost 40 percent more than the service estimates. If the Navy’s estimate proves correct, however, the frigate would be its least expensive surface combatant in the past 50 years.
- Report
Long-Term Implications of the 2021 Future Years Defense Program
CBO analyzes DoD’s plans for 2021 through 2025 as presented in the 2021 Future Years Defense Program and projects how those plans would affect defense costs through 2035.
- Report
An Update to the Budget Outlook: 2020 to 2030
CBO projects a federal budget deficit of $3.3 trillion in 2020, more than triple the shortfall recorded in 2019, mostly because of the economic disruption caused by the 2020 coronavirus pandemic and the enactment of legislation in response.
- Report
The Potential Costs of Expanding U.S. Strategic Nuclear Forces If the New START Treaty Expires
CBO examined what the costs would be if the New START Treaty expired in February 2021 and the United States increased its nuclear forces to the levels specified in the Moscow, START II, or START I treaties, considering two approaches for each.
- Presentation
The Cost of Replacing Today’s Naval Aviation Fleets
On June 27, 2020, R. Derek Trunkey, David Arthur, Edward G. Keating, and John Kerman (of CBO’s National Security Division) presented at the Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International.
- Report
Costs of Creating a Space National Guard
CBO examines two options for establishing a Space National Guard to support active component Space Force personnel, estimating the additional costs beyond those incurred for existing Air and Army National Guard units that have space-related missions.
- Report
Options for Fielding Ground-Launched Long-Range Missiles
This report examines some of the challenges U.S. forces might face in a conflict in the Baltic region or the South China Sea and options for mitigating those challenges by procuring and fielding ground-launched long-range missiles.
- Report
The Cost of Replacing the Department of Defense’s Current Aviation Fleet
Summarizing three reports about the aviation fleets of the U.S. Air Force, Army, and the Department of the Navy, CBO projects the number and costs of aircraft the Department of Defense would need to procure to maintain the fleets’ current size through 2050.