Defense Budget
- Presentation
A Presentation About Approaches to Changing Military Compensation
Presentation by Carla Tighe Murray, a consultant to CBO and former senior analyst for CBO’s National Security Division, to the Military Manpower Roundtable.
- Report
Approaches to Changing Military Compensation
This report examines military compensation and its effects on recruitment, retention, and motivation. CBO also provides a comparison with civilian compensation packages and examines five possible approaches for altering the way that DoD compensates military personnel.
- Presentation
The 2020 Outlook for Navy Shipbuilding
Presentation by Eric Labs, a senior analyst for naval forces and weapons in CBO’s National Security Division, at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Defense Outlook Forum.
- Report
The Cost of Replacing Today’s Naval Aviation Fleet
CBO estimates that purchasing new aircraft to maintain the aviation fleet of the Navy and Marine Corps at its current size would cost about $380 billion (in 2018 dollars) from 2020 to 2050. Annual costs would range from $7 billion to $17 billion.
- Cost Estimate
H.R. 4461, Network Security Information Sharing Act of 2019
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on November 20, 2019
- Report
Use of the Post-9/11 GI Bill by the National Guard and Reserves
In 2016, members of the reserve component received an average of $12,500 in benefits (measured in 2018 dollars) under the Post-9/11 GI Bill. This report describes their use of those benefits and compares how the reserve and regular components use their benefits.
- Cost Estimate
S. 1790, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020
As posted on the website of the House Committee on Rules on December 9, 2019. A letter to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the House Committees on the Budget, Armed Services, and the Judiciary and to the Chairwoman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform regarding the statutory pay-as-you-go effects of S. 1790 and the budgetary effects of the Federal Employee Paid Leave Act.
- Cost Estimate
S. 1790, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020
As posted on the website of the House Committee on Rules on December 9, 2019. A letter to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Senate Committees on the Budget, Armed Services, and the Judiciary regarding the statutory pay-as-you-go effects of S. 1790 and the budgetary effects of the Federal Employee Paid Leave Act.
- Report
The Cost of Supporting Military Bases
In 2016, the military services allocated $25 billion to base operations support (BOS). CBO explores characteristics of bases and the mission of the units they serve, analyzing the relationship between those characteristics and BOS costs.
- Report
Alternatives for Modernizing the Navy’s Sealift Force
CBO estimates that the Navy’s plan to modernize and operate its sealift ships over the next 30 years would cost roughly $39 billion. In this report, CBO explores four alternatives that would vary in cost from $34 billion to $40 billion.