Defense Budget
- Presentation
Prospects for DoD’s Acquisition Budget Over the Next Decade
Presentation by David Mosher, CBO’s Assistant Director for National Security, at the Professional Services Council’s Vision Conference 2019.
- Presentation
The Navy’s Amphibious Warfare Force: Change Under Fiscal Constraints
Presentation by Eric Labs, a senior analyst for naval forces and weapons in CBO’s National Security Division, at the National Defense Industrial Association’s 24th Annual Expeditionary Warfare Conference.
- Report
An Analysis of the Navy's Fiscal Year 2020 Shipbuilding Plan
CBO estimates that the total shipbuilding budget would average $31 billion per year, one-third more than the Navy estimates. The plan would require an increase of more than 50 percent compared with recent shipbuilding budgets.
- Report
Accounting for Federal Retirement and Veterans' Benefits: Cash and Accrual Measures
CBO examines the differences between cash and accrual accounting for federal retirement and veterans’ benefits, the information that the two types of estimates provide, and ways to expand the use of accrual measures for such benefits.
- Cost Estimate
S. 1790, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020
As passed by the Senate on June 27, 2019
- Report
Long-Term Implications of the 2020 Future Years Defense Program
According to CBO’s projections, if the plans described in the 2020 FYDP were implemented, DoD’s costs would increase from the $718 billion requested for 2020 to $776 billion (in 2020 dollars) by 2034.
- Presentation
Funding Implications of Impending Retirements of Air Force Aircraft
On Saturday, June 29, Adebayo Adedeji, an analyst in CBO’s National Security Division, presented at the Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International.
- Presentation
The Post-9/11 GI Bill: Beneficiaries, Choices, and Cost
Presentation by Elizabeth Bass, an analyst in CBO’s National Security Division, at the Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International.
- Cost Estimate
H.R. 2500, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020
As reported by the House Committee on Armed Services on June 19, 2019
- Report
The Cost of Replacing Today’s Army Aviation Fleet
The annual costs of replacing the Army’s aviation fleet would decline during the 2020s, from about $4 billion in 2018 to about $1.5 billion in 2027, and then rise to a peak of about $4.7 billion in 2032 before drifting downward again.