Faculty Publications:

• None.

Laws, Policies, Memos, and Regulations (sorted by regulation number):

• Under Secretary of Defense, Better Buying Power, Version 3.0 (white paper, Washington, DC: Department of Defense, 2014).
• DoD Instruction 5000.73, Cost Analysis Guide and Procedures: 2020 version | 2015 version
• DoD Instruction 7041.04, Estimating and Comparing the Full Costs of civilian and Active Duty Military Manpower and Contract Support, w/Change 1, July 2020.
• DoD Manual, 5000.04, Cost and Software Data Reporting, May 2021.
• DoD Directive-Type Memorandum 09-007, “Estimating and Comparing the Full Costs of Civilian and Military Manpower and Contract Support,” January 29, 2010.
• Army Regulation 11-18, The Cost and Economic Analysis Program, August 2019.
• Army Directive 2017-34, Acquisition Reform Initiative #7: Improving Cost Estimation and Resourcing, November 2017.
• Army Field Manual 1-06, Financial Management Operations, April 2014.
• Army, Department of the Army Cost Analysis Manual: 2013 (Guide v3) | 2002 (Manual)
• Government Accountability Office, GAO Green Book (Standards for Internal Control in Federal Government): 2014 version | 1999 version

Strategies and Reports:

• Belasco, Amy. The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11, Report #RL33110 (Washington, DC: Congressional Research Service, 2010).
• Schank, John F., Susan J. Bodilly, and Richard Y. Pei, Unit Cost Analysis: Executive Briefing (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1986), https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R3210z1.html

Commentaries (inclusion does not represent endorsement):

• Barno, David, Nora Bensahel, et al. The Seven Deadly Sins of Defense Spending (Washington, DC: Center for a New American Security, 2013), https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-defense-spending
• Barno, David, Nora Bensahel, and Travis Sharp. Hard Choices: Responsible Defense in an Age of Austerity (Washington, DC: Center for a New American Security, 2011), https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/hard-choices-responsible-defense-in-an-age-of-austerity
• Bromund, Ted. Defending Defense: Warning – Hollow Force Ahead! (Washington, DC: The Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, and the Foreign Policy Initiative, 2011), https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/defending-defense-warning-hollow-force-ahead
• Colby, Elbridge, Mackenzie Eaglen, and Roger Zakheim, “How to Trim the Defense Budget Without Harming U.S. Security,” Foreign Policy, September 30, 2020, https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/30/defense-budget-cut-pandemic-austerity-security/
• Enthoven, Alain C. and K. Wayne Smith, How Much is Enough? Shaping the Defense Program 1961-1969 (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1971/2005), https://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB403.html
• Frazier, Ryan. “Valuing Cost-Consciousness in Today’s Military Culture,” WAR ROOM, May 11, 2017, https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/valuing-cost-consciousness-todays-military-culture/
• Hoffman, Frank G. “Towards a Balanced and Stable Defense,” in Foreign Policy Research Institute, The Best of FPRI’s Essays on National Secuirtiy, 2005-2015 (Philadelphia, PA: Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2015), 47-53, https://www.fpri.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/best-of-pons-final-small-non-bookmarked-toc.pdf
• Heeley, Laicie. Military Spending for a New Strategic Reality (Washington, DC: Stimson Center, 2017), https://www.stimson.org/2017/military-spending-new-strategic-reality/
• Korb, Lawrence J. “Are U.S. Forces Unprepared and Underfunded?” Naval War College Review 55, no. 2 (Spring 2002): 29-40.
• Lepore, Jill. “The Force: How Much Military is Enough?” The New Yorker, January 20, 2013, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/01/28/the-force
• Liebman, Jeffrey B. and Neale Mahoney, “Do Expiring Budgets Lead to Wasteful Year-End Spending? Evidence from Federal Procurement,” (working paper, Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2018), https://www.nber.org/papers/w19481
• Lloyd, Richmond M. (ed.), “Economics and Security: Resourcing National Priorities,” Proceedings of a Workshop Sponsored by the  William B. Ruger Chair of National Security Economics, Paper Number 5 (Newport, RI: Naval War College, 2010).
• Murdock, Clark. “Preparing for a Deep Defense Drawdown: The Defense Drawdown Working Group (DDWG) and the “Cost-Capped” Methodology,” Center for Strategic & International Studies, October 12, 2012, https://www.csis.org/analysis/preparing-deep-defense-drawdown-defense-drawdown-working-group-ddwg-and-cost-capped
• “Political Polarization in the American Public,” Pew Research Center, June 12, 2014, https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2014/06/12/political-polarization-in-the-american-public/
• Roach, Morgan L. and Sally McNamara, “Defending Defense: Setting the Record Straight on U.S. Military Spending Requirements,” Joint Project of the The Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, and the Foreign Policy Initiative, October 14, 2010, https://www.heritage.org/defense/report/defending-defense-setting-the-record-straight-us-military-spending-requirements
• Rumbaugh, Russell, What We Bought: Defense Procurement from FY01 to FY10 (Washington, DC: Stimson Center, 2011), https://www.stimson.org/2011/what-we-bought-defense-procurement-fy01-fy10/
• Shevin-Coatzee, Michelle. “Making Defense Reform Sane Again: Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution,” War on the Rocks, July 29, 2015, https://warontherocks.com/2015/07/making-defense-reform-sane-again-planning-programming-budgeting-and-execution-2/
• Spring, Baker, “The FY 2010 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
• Spring, Baker, James Carafano, and Mackenzie Eaglen, “Four Percent for Freedom: Maintaining Robust National Security Spending,” The Heritage Foundation, April 10, 2007, http://s3.amazonaws.com/thf_media/2007/pdf/em1027.pdf

Special Topics (possible future shelf):

• Military Healthcare:
  • Approaches to Changing Military Healthcare (Washington, DC: Congressional Budget Office, October 2017).
• Overseas Contingency Operations:
  • Funding for Overseas Contingency Operations and Its Impact on Defense Spending (Washington, DC: Congressional Budget Office, October 2018).
• Operations and Maintenance:
  • Trends in Spending by the Department of Defense for Operations and Maintenance (Washington, DC: Congressional Budget Office, January 2017).