Defense Budget
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The Personnel Requirements and Costs of New Military Space Organizations
CBO estimates the added personnel requirements and costs of five kinds of military space organizations. DoD wants to create three, which could increase annual costs by $1 billion to $2 billion and require onetime startup costs of $2 billion to $5 billion.
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The Post-9/11 GI Bill: Beneficiaries, Choices, and Cost
From 2010 through 2016, the Veterans Benefits Administration spent $65 billion on educational benefits for 1.6 million veterans, spouses and children, mostly for veterans’ tuition, fees, and housing. In 2016, VBA spent an average of $17,400 per beneficiary.
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Costs of Submarine Maintenance at Public and Private Shipyards
From 1993 to 2017, the Navy conducted 117 maintenance overhauls of attack submarines and sent 29 to private shipyards. Overhauls conducted at private shipyards were 31 percent less expensive, on average, a gap that has narrowed recently.
- Blog Post
CBO Begins Posting Narrated Presentations
To make the slides from presentations given by its staff members more informative, CBO is beginning to include narration with some of them. The first examples involve our most recent 10-year economic forecast and our analysis of the Navy’s 2019 shipbuilding plan.
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Overseas Contingency Operations: Trends and Issues
Presentation by F. Matthew Woodward, an analyst in CBO’s National Security Division, at a joint seminar by the Congressional Research Service, the Congressional Budget Office, and the Government Accountability Office.
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Long-Term Implications of the 2019 Future Years Defense Program
CBO estimates that if the Department of Defense implemented the plans described in its 2019 Future Years Defense Program, its base-budget costs (in 2019 dollars) would climb from the $617 billion requested for 2019 to $735 billion in 2033.
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Projected Costs of U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2019 to 2028
The Administration’s current plans for U.S. nuclear forces would cost $494 billion over the 2019–2028 period—$94 billion more than CBO’s 2017 estimate for the 2017–2026 period, in part because modernization programs continue to ramp up.
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Operating Costs and Aging of Air Force Aircraft
Presentation by Derek Trunkey, an analyst with CBO’s National Security Division, at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Air Force Studies Board.
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Navy Ship Construction: From the Budget Control Act to Building a New Fleet
Presentation by Eric Labs, a senior analyst for naval forces and weapons in CBO’s National Security Division, at the Surface Navy Association’s 31st National Symposium.
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The 2019 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.