Military Personnel
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Funding for Overseas Contingency Operations and Its Impact on Defense Spending
CBO analyzes how the Defense Department’s (DoD’s) funding for military conflicts has changed over time and how the separate budgetary treatment of that funding affects perceptions of DoD’s spending and the anticipated costs of DoD’s plans.
- Blog Post
CBO Releases an Interactive Tool for Analyzing the Military’s Forces and Provides an Update on Transparency
Yesterday’s release of an interactive tool for analyzing the military’s forces is one of many ways the agency is working to be transparent.
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The U.S. Military’s Force Structure: Fiscal Year 2019 Update to Personnel Numbers and Costs
This spreadsheet provides the data that underlie CBO’s interactive force structure tool.
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Comparing a 355-Ship Fleet With Smaller Naval Forces
CBO estimates that the costs of achieving a 355-ship Navy under two different approaches would average over $100 billion annually through 2047. Those scenarios are compared with two others that would cost less and involve a smaller fleet.
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Analysis of the Long-Term Costs of the Administration’s Goals for the Military
CBO estimates that inflation-adjusted costs for the Department of Defense would climb from the $575 billion requested in 2018 to $688 billion in 2027 if DoD pursued goals that Administration officials have articulated for the military.
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Approaches to Changing Military Health Care
CBO examined possible changes to the Department of Defense’s Military Health System, analyzing the effects of those changes on the federal budget, the quality of military health care, and preparedness for wartime missions.
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Trends in the Department of Defense’s Support Costs
Funding for support functions consumes more of the defense budget today than it did in the 1980s, CBO finds. The largest increases were in health care, DoD management, communications infrastructure, and the science and technology program.
- Cost Estimate
S. 1519, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018
As reported by the Senate Committee on Armed Services on July 10, 2017
- Presentation
Labor Force Experiences of Recent Veterans
Presentation by Heidi Golding and Elizabeth Bass, analysts in CBO’s National Security Division, at the 92nd annual conference of the Western Economic Association International.
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Labor Force Experiences of Recent Veterans
From 2008 to 2015, male veterans ages 22 to 44 who left active-duty service after September 2001 had experiences in the labor market similar to those of civilian men, although the youngest veterans had somewhat higher unemployment rates.