Weapon Systems
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Report
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.
- Report
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.
- Presentation
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.