2024年12月12日 · 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.

2023年11月8日 · Today, the Congressional Budget Office updated and enhanced its interactive force structure tool.The online tool lets users customize the structure of the U.S. military’s forces to see the effects on defense spending, or customize the defense budget to see the effects on the size and structure of the military.

2025年1月6日 · 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.

1987年9月14日 · 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.

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 ...

2024年3月5日 · 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.

2021年5月20日 · This spreadsheet provides the personnel numbers and costs that CBO estimates for each type of major combat unit in the U.S. military, updated to reflect the Defense Department’s fiscal year 2024 budget submission as of November 2023.

2012年11月14日 · 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.

2022年12月7日 · Military spending can enhance economic productivity through development of human capital and new technology. Some people argue that the military can offer an effective training and jobs program for young, low-skilled people and that when they leave the service, those people can enter higher-skilled occupations.

Funding for current spending under the military health care program (known as TRICARE), excluding the costs of caring for current military retirees who also are eligible for Medicare (the latter costs are covered by the accrual payments made in earlier years, just described). In all, about 1.4 million active-duty military personnel