Military Personnel
- Cost Estimate
Direct Spending and Revenue Effects of H.R. 7900, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023
Letter to the Honorable Adam Smith
- Blog Post
CBO Releases an Improved Interactive Tool for Analyzing the Military’s Forces and Resources
The enhanced tool lets users change the defense budget to see the possible effects on military forces, or add or subtract major units to see the effects on the budget, or explore a mix of those approaches. It includes a how-to-use tutorial.
- Cost Estimate
S. 3785, An act to amend title 49, United States Code, to eliminate the restriction on veterans concurrently serving in the Offices of Administrator and Deputy Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration
As Passed by the Senate on April 7, 2022
- 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.
- Cost Estimate
Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Effects of S. 1605, The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022
As Passed by the House of Representatives on December 7, 2021
- Cost Estimate
S. 2299, CADETS Act
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on August 4, 2021
- Cost Estimate
S. 2792, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022
As reported by the Senate Committee on Armed Services on
September 22, 2021 - 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.
- 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.