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Bookmark or Share- Defense Budget - Congressional Budget OfficeThe funding provided to DoD covers its base budget—which pays for the department’s normal activities—and its contingency operations overseas. CBO analyzes the possible consequences of planned reductions in funding for the military’s force structure and acquisitions.
- Long-Term Implications of the 2025 Future Years Defense ProgramAt a Glance The Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) is a five-year plan that the Department of Defense (DoD) prepares as part of its annual budget request. In this report, the Congressional Budget Office analyzes the costs of DoD’s plans for 2025 to 2029 as presented in the 2025 FYDP and projects how those plans would affect defense costs through 2039.
- CBO’s Interactive Force Structure Tool - Congressional Budget Office(No military personnel costs are associated with acquisition and infrastructure budgets, however, because those personnel are funded elsewhere in the defense budget.) Changing the slider associated with any type of major combat unit will not affect a department’s acquisition and infrastructure budgets, but users can alter those budgets ...
- Costs of Military Pay and Benefits in the Defense BudgetFor fiscal year 2013, the Department of Defense (DoD) requested about $150 billion to fund the pay and benefits of current and retired members of the military. That amount is more than one-quarter of DoD’s total base budget request (the request for all funding other than for military operations in Afghanistan and related activities).
- Military Personnel - Congressional Budget OfficeRoughly one-quarter of the Department of Defense’s budget is for military personnel. CBO examines the budgetary implications of different approaches to compensating military personnel, including possible changes in the structure of cash payments, health benefits for military personnel and their family members, and health benefits for retirees.
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