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U.S. Military Spending - CDI Resources
 

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Pentagon budget information, including the annual request by program and "National Defense Budget Estimates."


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Highlights of the FY04 Budget Request

Nunn-McCurdy Amendment
As part of the Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1982, Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA) and Representative David McCurdy (D-OK) included language intended to limit cost growth in major weapons programs. Known as the Nunn-McCurdy amendment, the language called for the termination of weapons programs whose total costs grew by more than 25 percent above original estimates, unless they were certified as critical systems by the Secretary of Defense or if the cost growth was attributable to certain specified changes in the program.

World Military Database 2002
The Center for Defense Information is pleased to announce the release of the 2001-2002 edition of its "World Military DataBase 2002." First published in 1995, the World Military DataBase is a fact-filled, easy to use guide to the U.S. military. The DataBase provides detailed information on military forces, personnel, budgets, deployments and security arrangements for the United States and around the world. Defense Week called the DataBase “...a plethora of military numbers, facts, figures, dollars and cents...”

Bush Budget Stalls Transformation Drive

Highlights of the FY'03 Budget Request

U.S. Military Transformation: Not Just More Spending, But Better Spending

Highlights and Analysis of the Fiscal Year 2002 Military Budget

Program Costs to Date For Selected Weapons Systems, -- Factsheet, February 13, 2001, What's been spent so far on some of the Pentagon's highest priority weapons programs.

Fiscal Year 2001

Highlights of the Fiscal Year 2001 Budget Request   --  February 7, 2000   Fact Sheets and Analysis

Military Experts Critical of Administration's Pentagon Spending Plan   --  February 7, 2000   Press Release
 

 
Fiscal Year 2000

House Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for FY 2000 -- H.R. 3908, April 4, 2000.
     Selected Spending Provisions

Highlights of the Fiscal Year 2000 Budget Request   --  February 2, 1999   Factsheet


 
Military Experts Critical of Administration's Pentagon Spending Plan   -- January 29, 1999   Press Release
 
Comparison of the FY'99 and FY'00 Defense Budget Request   -- February 2, 1999   Table
 
Top Seven Claims Why We Need to Increase Military Spending (And Why They're Wrong)   -- May 29, 1998   Factsheet
 
A Glossary of Military Spending Terms   --  September 27, 1997   Factsheet
 
Military Costs: The Real Totals   -- August 8, 1996   Table
 
Research Spending   -- August 8, 1996   Chart
 
U.S. Military Spending: 1945-1996   -- August 8, 1996   Graph
 
Highlights of DOD's FY'99 Budget Request.   -- February 2, 1998   Factsheet
 
Proposed Congressional Funding for Major Weapons Systems -- FY'99   -- May 28, 1998   Chart
 
Discretionary Spending, Fiscal Year 1997   -- September 10, 1996   Article
 
 
 
Congressional Add-Ons to the Defense Budget
 

 
Additions by Congress to Fiscal Year 2001 Budget   -- July 28, 2000   Factsheet
 
Budget Experts Highlight Congressional Add-Ons to Annual Pentagon Spending Bill   -- October 14, 1999   Press Release
 
Additions by Congress to Fiscal Year 2000 Budget   -- October 14, 1999   Factsheet
 
Additions by Congress to Fiscal Year 1999 Budget   -- October 1, 1998   Factsheet
 
Additions by Congress to Fiscal Year 1997 Budget   -- July 15, 1996   Factsheet
 
Additions by Congress to Fiscal Year 1996 Budget   -- February 2, 1996   Factsheet
 
 
 
Issues of CDI's Weekly Defense Monitor
 

Fiscal Year 2001
 

 
CBO: Current U.S. Military Force Structure is Underfunded   -- September 14, 2000
 
Service Chiefs to Seek Major Pentagon Funding Boost   -- June 5, 2000
 
Congress Set to Boost Pentagon Spending   -- April 13, 2000
 
Congressional Leaders Looking to Increase Pentagon Budget   -- March 2, 2000
 
Money, Money, Who Gets the Money?   -- February 24, 2000
 
Congress Faults Administration's Pentagon Spending Plan as Inadequate   -- February 10, 2000
 
What Next For the Pentagon?   -- January 6, 2000
 

Fiscal Year 2000
 

 
Congress Scuttles Kosovo Funding Package   -- April 6, 2000
 
Administration Announces Across-the-Board Spending Cuts   -- January 2, 2000
 
Congress Wraps Up Work on DoD Spending   -- October 14, 1999
 
Administration, Congress, Push Kosovo Funding Package   -- April 29, 1999
 
Congress Moves to Boost Military Spending   -- April 8, 1999
 
Fiscal Year 2000 Pentagon Budget: "Talk" or "Walk?"   -- March 11, 1999
 
Congress Begins Work on FY'99 Supplemental, New Budget Resolution   -- March 4, 1999
 
Administration Proposes Funding Boost for Nunn-Lugar   -- February 11, 1999
 
Administration Seeks More Money for the Pentagon   -- February 4, 1999
 
Administration to Seek Major Pentagon Spending Increase   -- January 7, 1999
 
Pentagon May Seek Substantial Increase in FY 2000 Top-line   -- December 10, 1998
 
 

Fiscal Year 1999
 
Congress Adopts Defense Funding Bill   -- October 1, 1998
 
Clinton Requests More Money for Pentagon   -- September 24, 1998
 
Pressure Growing to Boost Pentagon Funding   -- September 17, 1998
 
Increased Pentagon Funding Unlikely, Despite Congressional Pressure   -- April 30, 1998
 
The Fiscal Year 1999 Pentagon Budget Request   -- February 5, 1998
 
Pentagon Budget to be Released February 2   -- January 29, 1998
 
For more information on U.S. Military Spending, please email Christopher Hellman.
 

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