
Defense Budget - Congressional Budget Office
Dec 12, 2024 · Spending for the Department of Defense (DoD) accounts for nearly all of the nation’s defense budget. The funding provided to DoD covers its base budget—which pays for the department’s normal activities—and its contingency operations overseas.
Atlas of Military Compensation, 2024 - Congressional Budget Office
Dec 5, 2023 · Spending by VA has accounted for most of that increase, rising from a small fraction of the total to about 61 percent of military compensation in the President’s 2025 budget request. In the 2025 budget request, total military compensation is $600 billion. (Of that total, $236 billion is for DoD and $365 billion is for VA.)
The amounts shown here do not include spending for the Military Health System in accounts other than military personnel and operation and maintenance. FYDP = 2023 Future Years Defense Program. Costs of the Military Health System Grew Sharply in the Early 2000s But Have Been Relatively Flat in Recent Years In CBO’s projections, the costs of ...
Costs of Military Pay and Benefits in the Defense Budget
Nov 14, 2012 · This report, which focuses on military compensation, discusses several approaches that could be taken to curtail federal spending. One possibility would be to restrict basic pay raises, as DoD has proposed for three of the next five years in its 2013 Future Years Defense Program, which was submitted to the Congress in April 2012.
Defense and National Security - Congressional Budget Office
Jan 6, 2025 · In the President’s 2025 budget request, total military compensation is $600 billion, including veterans' benefits. That amount represents an increase of 162 percent since 1980 (and 151 percent since 1999) after removing inflation’s effects.
Reduce the Department of Defense's Annual Budget
Dec 7, 2022 · Defense spending is focused on producing military power to support national security objectives, such as maintaining global peace and security by deterring aggression or enhancing U.S. global influence. All households benefit from the public good of peace and security generated by defense spending and many other elements of national power.
Long-Term Implications of the 2024 Future Years Defense Program
Changes in acquisition plans can result from various factors. In earlier FYDPs, for example, funding constraints imposed by the Budget Control Act of 2011 (Public Law 112-25) led DoD to curtail its planned acquisition spending. Adjustments in the military capability of perceived adversaries can also spur changes in DoD’s acquisition plans.
Sep 14, 1987 · While defense spending as a percent of GNP generally fell during the peacetime periods between 1950 and 1980, nondefense spending generally rose (see Figure A-l in the Appendix). Comparing the years 1980 and 1987, this pattern has reversed, with defense spending rising as a percent of GNP and nondefense spending generally falling.
Long-Term Implications of the 2025 Future Years Defense Program
At 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.
Graphics - Congressional Budget Office
Mar 5, 2024 · In the President’s 2025 budget request, total military compensation is $600 billion, including veterans' benefits. That amount represents an increase of 162 percent since 1980 (and 151 percent since 1999) after removing inflation’s effects.