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This rack provides reference materials regarding the annual budget submissions to Congress across fiscal years. Includes documents such as posture statements, budget requests and analyses of those requests, and budget-related strategy reviews accompanying the budget submission process. Many of these documents were archived from Defense Management lessons in previous academic years and the numbers of documents available for any given year varies significantly. Your help in rounding out the older years and ensuring completeness of current-day materials is greatly appreciated!
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Faculty Publications:
- None.
Laws, Policies, Memos, and Regulations (sorted by regulation number):
- None.
Strategies and Reports:
- Congressional Budget Office, Illustrative Options for National Defense under a Smaller Defense Budget (Washington, DC: Congressional Budget Office, October 2021).
Commentaries (inclusion does not imply endorsement):
- None.
This shelf provides resources pertaining to particular budget requests for the 2020s. These will ordinarily include federal budget overview documents from the military departments, the Department of Defense, or the White House. It may also include posture statements to Congress, reports and commentaries from the Congressional Budget Office and other government agencies, or the National Defense Authorization Act itself. The repositories are incomplete, your help in completing theme is most appreciated.
Fiscal Year 2024:
- NDAA Conference Report, December 2023
- Budget overviews: DoD (USD-Comptroller) | Army | Air Force | Navy
- Prepared statements for budget hearing: SECDEF | CJCS
Fiscal Year 2023:
- Budget overviews: DoD (USD-Comptroller) | Army | Air Force | Navy
- Prepared statements for budget hearing: SECDEF | CJCS
- Congressional Budget Office, The 2022 Long-Term Budget Outlook (Washington, DC: Congressional Budget Office, July 2022), https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2022-07/57971-LTBO.pdf
Fiscal Year 2022:
- Final National Defense Authorization Act for FY2022
- Prepared posture statements: SECDEF | CJCS
- Budget overviews: White House | DoD (USD-Comptroller) | Army | Air Force | Navy
- Congressional Budget Office, An Update to the Budget and Economic Outlook: 2021 to 2031 (Washington, DC: Congressional Budget Office, July 2021).
- Additional resources (no endorsement implied):
- Cancian, Mark F., U.S. Military Forces in FY2022: Peering into the Abyss—The Budget and Strategy Overview (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, October 2021), https://www.csis.org/analysis/military-forces-fy-2022-peering-abyss-budget-and-strategy-overview
- Harrison, Todd and Seamus P. Daniels, Analysis of the FY 2022 Defense Budget: Funding Trends and Issues for the Next National Defense Strategy (Washington DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, December 2021), https://www.csis.org/analysis/analysis-fy-2022-defense-budget
- Pettyjohn, Stacie L. The Fiscal Year 2022 Defense Budget and Future Options for the Pentagon, testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, July 20, 2021, Center for a New American Security, https://www.cnas.org/publications/congressional-testimony/the-fiscal-year-2022-defense-budget-and-future-options-for-the-pentagon
Fiscal Year 2021:
- Final National Defense Authorization Act for FY2021
- Prepared posture statements: SECDEF | CJCS
- Budget overviews: DoD (USD-Comptroller) | Army | Air Force | Navy
- House Armed Services Committee Task Force report on the “Future of Defense“
- Congressional Budget Office report on the Future-Years Defense Program (FYDP)
- Additional resources (no endorsement implied):
- Cancian, Mark F., U.S. Military Forces in FY2021: The Budget and Strategy Overview: Four Challenges and a Wild Card (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic & International Studies, October 2020), https://www.csis.org/analysis/military-forces-fy-2021-budget-and-strategy-overview-four-challenges-and-wild-card
- Harrison, Todd and Seamus P. Daniels. “Analysis of the FY 2021 Defense Budget,” Center for Strategic and International Studies, August 2020, https://defense360.csis.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Analysis-of-the-FY-2021-Defense-Budget.pdf
Fiscal Year 2020:
- Prepared posture statements: Air Force
- Budget overviews: DoD (USD-Comptroller) | Army | Air Force | Navy
- Department of Defense, Program Acquisition Cost by Weapon System, supplement to FY2020 Budget Request
- Office of Management and Budget, An American Budget: Analytical Perspectives.
- Congressional Budget Office report on the Budget Outlook for 2019-2029
This shelf provides resources pertaining to particular budget requests for the 2010s. These will ordinarily include federal budget overview documents from the military departments, the Department of Defense, or the White House. It may also include posture statements to Congress, reports and commentaries from the Congressional Budget Office and other government agencies, or the National Defense Authorization Act itself. The repositories are incomplete, your help in completing theme is most appreciated.
Fiscal Year 2019:
- Prepared posture statements: CJCS | Army
- Report on DoD acquisition costs
- Reports from the Congressional Budget Office: Budget | Brief book
- Budget overview from the Congressional Research Service.
Fiscal Year 2018:
- Prepared posture statements: CJCS
- Document explaining the budgeting rules for FY2018
- Report from the Office of Management and Budget
Fiscal Year 2017:
- Prepared posture statements: Army (Testimony on modernization | Posture Statement)
- Analytical report by the Office of Management and Budget
Fiscal Year 2016:
- None.
Fiscal Year 2015:
- Posture hearings: DoD on sequestration
- Posture statements: DoD | CJCS | Army | Air Force | Marine Corps | Navy
- DoD report on the FY15 budget
- Congressional Budget Office report on the budget
- Report on DoD acquisition costs.
Fiscal Year 2014:
- Budget testimonies: SECDEF (as prepared | as delivered) | CJCS
- Posture statements: Army
- DoD report on “Budget Priorities and Choices“
Fiscal Year 2013:
- Department of Defense budget justification book
- SECDEF testimony to Congress
- Memoranda from DEPSECDEF and 7 four-star officers expressing concerns about the impacts of sequestration, plus separate testimony by CSA
- Budget request documentation: DoD | Army | Navy | Air Force | Coast Guard
- Additional budget briefs and PRESBUD highlights from the Army
- Posture statements: CJCS | Army
- Congressional Budget Office overview of the FY13 budget
Fiscal Year 2012:
- Prepared posture statements: Army
Fiscal Year 2011:
- None.
Fiscal Year 2010:
- SECDEF Testimony to Congress and PRESBUD 10 / FYDP 11-15 Update
- OMB overview of the FY10 President’s Budget
- Congressional Budget Office overview
- DoD FY10 Budget Factsheet
- FY10 Budget Overviews: Air Force | Army | Navy
- Press Briefs: Air Force | Army | Navy
- Budget Highlights for the Army
- Final National Defense Authorization Act for FY2010
- External Resources (inclusion does not imply endorsement):
- AUSA, Fiscal Year 2010 Army Budget Analysis, https://www.ausa.org/sites/default/files/SR-FY2010-Army-Budget-Analysis.pdf
- Eaglen, Mackenzie and Jim Talent, “Obama’s 2010 Defense Budget: Top Five Worst Choices for National Security,” The Heritage Foundation, June 15, 2009, https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/obamas-2010-defense-budget-top-five-worst-choices-national-security
- Hoffman, Frank G. “Towards a Balanced and Sustainable Defense,” Orbis (Spring 2009): 385-404, also available at https://www.fpri.org/article/2009/07/towards-a-balanced-and-sustainable-defense/
- Spring, Baker. “The FY2010 Defense Budget Request: Prelude to Another Procurement Holiday?” The Heritage Foundation, June 19, 2009, https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/the-fy-2010-defense-budget-request-prelude-another-procurement-holiday
This shelf provides resources pertaining to particular budget requests for the 2000s (only 2007-2009 are available). These will ordinarily include federal budget overview documents from the military departments, the Department of Defense, or the White House. It may also include posture statements to Congress, reports and commentaries from the Congressional Budget Office and other government agencies, or the National Defense Authorization Act itself. The repositories are incomplete, your help in completing theme is most appreciated.
Fiscal Year 2009:
- Posture statements: CJCS | Army
- Budget Overviews: Air Force | Navy
- Budget Highlights: Army | Air Force | Navy
- Press release: Army
- Congressional Budget Office overview of the FY09 budget
- External Resources (inclusion does not imply endorsement):
- AUSA, Fiscal Year 2009 Army Budget Analysis, https://www.ausa.org/sites/default/files/SR-FY2009-Army-Budget-Analysis.pdf
Fiscal Year 2008:
- OMB report on the defense budget, “Where We Are“
- Congressional Budget Office overview
- Budget highlights and press brief from the Navy
- Testimony from the Air Force on Strategic Initiatives
- GAO report on the fiscal challenges presented by growing health care costs
- External Resources (inclusion does not imply endorsement):
- AUSA, Fiscal Year 2008 Army Budget Analysis, https://www.ausa.org/sites/default/files/SR-FY2008-Army-Budget-Analysis.pdf
Fiscal Year 2007:
- Presidential Budget Submission for 2007
- Budget requests: DoD | Air Force | Navy
- Congressional Budget Office reports: Long-Term Implications of Defense Plans | Testimony on Budgeting for Iraq and GWOT | Budget & Economic Outlook 2008-2017 (January 2007) | Budget & Economic Outlook (August 2006)
- Final National Defense Authorization Act of 2007
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Resource Management (X): Annual Budget Requests (XB) — Military Spending & Cost Analysis (XC) — Financial Management & Stewardship (XF) — National Fiscal Process (XN) — Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) Systems (XP)
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