Explaining Analytical Methods
- Report
National Cruise Missile Defense: Issues and Alternatives
CBO examined the threat that adversaries equipped with land-attack cruise missiles might pose to the U.S. homeland and estimated the costs of several defensive systems that could be fielded to protect the United States from such attacks.
- Working Paper
Federal Reinsurance for Terrorism Risk and Its Effects on the Budget: Working Paper 2020-04
This paper describes CBO’s methods for estimating the costs of the federal terrorism risk insurance program. It also discusses how estimates of the program’s budgetary effects would differ if they were produced using accrual-based measures rather than cash-based measures.