Military Personnel
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The U.S. Military’s Force Structure: A Primer, 2021 Update
This update of CBO’s 2016 primer on the structure of the U.S. military describes the size, functions, and operation and support costs of every major element of the armed forces.
- Cost Estimate
H.R. 7785, a bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend certain employment and reemployment rights to members of the National Guard who perform State active duty
As ordered reported by the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on September 17, 2020
- 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
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
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.
- 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.
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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.
- 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.
- 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.