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Fiscal Year 1999 Add-Ons:

Congress' Unrequested Spending for the Pentagon

As part of its work on the Fiscal Year 1999 budget, Congress funded a number of military programs not included in the Clinton Administration's request for the Pentagon. The following is a $1.2 billion list of programs added by either the House or Senate and approved by Congress as part of the Fiscal Year 1999 Appropriations Act for which the Pentagon had not requested funding:

	$ Millions
C-130J Air National Guard Cargo Aircraft (3)	192.0
Miscellaneous national Guard and Reserve Equipment	160.0
Navy KC-130J Aircraft (2)	112.4
Army Bradley Fighting Vehicle Modifications	89.5
Air Force EC-130J Aircraft (1)	85.0
Air Force WC-130 Weather Aircraft (1)	75.4
Navy Common Imagery Ground to Surface Systems	65.8
Army UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopters, advanced procurement	58.1
Air Force B-2 Bomber, Additional Modifications	50.0
Air Force F-15 Fighter Aircraft Modifications	45.0
Marine Corps LHD Assault Ship, Advanced Procurement	45.0
Army Ammunition (assorted)	43.5
Air Force Small VCX (1)	39.8
Air Force SLAM-ER Air-to-Ground Missile	39.5
Air Force E-8C JSTARS Aircraft, Advanced Procurement	36.0
Air Force F-16C/D Fighter Aircraft Multi-year Procurement (1)	30.0
Army C-XX next Generation Cargo Aircraft	27.0
Army Electrical Support Test Sets	20.0
Army Floating Crane	15.0
TOTAL:	1.229 Billion

In addition, members of the House-Senate Conference Committee which wrote the final version of this legislation added funding for a number of programs which were not only not requested by the Pentagon, but were not even included by either the House or the Senate.

	$ Millions
ADSAM Surface-to-Air Missile Demonstration Project	92.5
Army Prostate Research	50.0
Army National Guard MLRS Support Equipment	30.0
Modifications for FFG Class Guided Missile Destroyers	11.0
Navy T-45 TS Trainer Aircraft Program	10.9
Navy Ship, Submarine & Logistics Technology	10.0
Navy Land Attack Extended Range Guided Munition Technology	8.0
Army Reserve All-terrain Cranes	8.0
Marine Corps Mobile Electronic Warfare Support System (MEWSS) Program	6.5
Navy STANDARD Missile Modifications	5.0
TOTAL:	231.9 Million

NOTE: This is not a complete list, but represents those items identified to date by CDI.

Prepared by Chris Hellman,chellman@cdi.org Senior Research Analyst, October 1, 1998.
Source: National Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1999 - Conference Report