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 Bibliography0 wallclock secs ( 0.10 usr + 0.01 sys = 0.11 CPU) 16 hits Financial Action on the FY 2008 Defense Appropriations Act Update (PDF file - opens in new window) By Steven Kosiak This analysis provides a brief description of the FY 2008 DoD appropriations act. 12/20/2007 Comparison of the FY 2008 House and SASC Defense Authorization Bills Update (PDF file - opens in new window) By Steven Kosiak This analysis provides a brief comparison of the House and SASC versions of the FY 2008 defense authorization act. 08/13/2007 Historical and Projected Funding for Defense: Presentation of the FY 2008 Request in Tables and Charts Update (PDF file - opens in new window) By Steven Kosiak This Update includes seven tables and three graphs that present key defense budget data recently released as part of the administration’s FY 2008 budget submission. These tables and graphs include: National Defense Budget Authority and Outlays; National Defense Budget Authority, FY 1946–2012; National Defense Budget Authority, FY 1946–2012; National Defense Outlays, FY 1946–2012; DoD Budget Authority by Title; FY 2008 Request for Selected Weapon Systems; DoD Budget by Service, FY 1980–2013; FY 2008 Federal Budget Request in Outlays; National Defense, Federal Spending and the Gross Domestic Product; Defense Spending as a Share of GDP. 06/07/2007 Analysis of the FY 2008 Defense Budget Request Report (PDF file - opens in new window) By Steven Kosiak in coming years pressure will grow for DoD to scale back its plans, including both major modernization efforts (e.g., the F-35, FCS and DDG 1000 programs) and force structure plans. There is good reason to believe that by adopting a scaled-back and more transformation-oriented defense plan the United States could avoid (or offset) much of the cost growth that is otherwise projected in DoD’s plans, by CBO and others, and still adequately meet its security requirements. However, so long as a large US military presence is required in Iraq or it is deemed necessary to maintain the capability to conduct such large-scale stability operations in the future, it will be difficult or impossible to make reductions in some programs and activities—especially in Army and Marine Corps force structure. 06/07/2007 Both DoD Base and War Budgets Receive Big Boosts Update (PDF file - opens in new window) By Steven Kosiak The Bush Administration today announced that it will request some $483 billion to cover the peacetime costs of Department of Defense (DoD) in fiscal year (FY) 2008.1 In addition to this funding in DoD’s “base” budget, the administration’s latest plan includes a request for $141.7 billion to cover the FY 2008 costs of the Global War on Terror (GWOT), including military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thus, altogether, under the new plan DoD is projected to receive some $624.6 billion in FY 2008. 02/05/2007 Analyze US Earmarks, Forget Line-Item Veto Article-non CSBA pub (PDF file - opens in new window) By Pat Towell Like other folk remedies, the line-item veto President George W. Bush has reqested to curb congressional earmarks could foster a false sense of security while undermining the patient's well-being. Congress should adopt the proposal of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., requiring advance disclosure of the sponsorship, beneficiaries and cost implications of each earmark. The resulting publicity likely would weed out many of the more debatable earmarks. 04/03/2006 Analysis of the FY 2006 Defense Budget Request Report (PDF file - opens in new window) By Steven Kosiak An anlysis of the $441.8 billion request for national defense authority for fiscal year 2006, not including funds for Iraq and Afghanistan. 05/17/2005 Overview of the Administration's FY 2006 Request for Homeland Security Update (PDF file - opens in new window) By Steven Kosiak The Bush Administration's FY06 budget plan provides annual appropriations for Homeland Security at a level 165 percent higher than FY01. 05/03/2005 FY 2006 Defense Budget Request: DOD Budget Remains on Upward Trajectory Update (PDF file - opens in new window) By Steven Kosiak An initial review of the administration's FY06 Defense Budget request. 02/04/2005 Funding for Defense, Military Operations, Homeland Security, and Related Activities since 9/11 Update (PDF file - opens in new window) By Steven Kosiak This piece provides an updated guide to spending on defense, homeland security and other activities above what would have been projected prior to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, some $513 billion. 10/18/2004 Final action on the FY 2005 Defense Appropriations Act Update (PDF file - opens in new window) By Steven Kosiak This update provides a brief summary of the conference agreement on the FY 2005 defense appropriations act. Among other things, it discusses how some of the main differences between the House and Senate defense appropriations bills were resolved in conference—including action on a select group of major weapons programs 08/04/2004 Comparison of the FY 2005 House and Senate Defense Authorization Bills Update (PDF file - opens in new window) By Steven Kosiak A comparison of the House and Senate version of the FY 2005 Defense Auhtorization bills prior to conference. 06/25/2004 One Year Later: The Cost of Military Operations in Iraq Update (PDF file - opens in new window) By Steven Kosiak A review of military operations spending in Iraq upon the one year anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom. 03/18/2004 Historical and Projected Funding for Defense: Presentation of the FY 05 Budget in Tables and Charts -- Introduction Update (PDF file - opens in new window) By Steven Kosiak Introduction: presentation of the FY 05 defense budget request in charts and tables. 02/06/2004 Historical and Projected Funding for Defense: Presentation of the FY 05 Budget in Tables and Charts Update (PDF file - opens in new window) By Steven Kosiak A presentation of the FY 05 defense budget request in charts and tables with historical data added. 02/06/2004 FY 2005 Defense Budget Request: DoD Stays the Course on Spending Plans Update (PDF file - opens in new window) By Steven M. Kosiak The Bush Administration has announced that it will request $401.7 billion for the Defense Department in FY 2005. Overall, the administration’s latest budget request and FYDP appear to closely resemble the funding plans released in February 2003. 01/30/2004 |
Defense Budget ProcessThe first step in the annual defense budget process involves preparation of the budget request by the White House, the Defense Department and other executive branch agencies. Eighteen to twenty months before October 1 (the start of a new fiscal year), the White House provides the Pentagon with military and fiscal guidance to be used in preparing the budget request. (See M. Thomas Davis, Managing Defense After the Cold War. June 1997, which examines DoD’s Planning, Programming and Budgeting System.) The results of this process are then reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the executive branch organization charged with preparing, coordinating and administering the overall federal budget. If necessary, changes are made. The president then submits to Congress the defense budget request, along with the request for the rest of the federal budget, typically around February 1, or about nine months ahead of the fiscal year it would fund. In the next step, Congress reviews the president’s defense budget request, makes some modifications to the request, and eventually passes a budget for the coming fiscal year. The formal institutions and process through which Congress carries out its constitutional responsibilities for the defense budget have become complex over time. Key to this process is the role of congressional committees. The House and Senate appropriations committees are primarily responsible for approving expenditures. Nevertheless, since the 1960s each chambers’ armed services committees have also become major participants in the defense budget process, authorizing funding for specific programs. After 1974, a third layer of congressional review was created involving the budget committees. |
