Defense and National Security
- Report
Long-Term Costs of the Administration’s 2022 Defense Budget
CBO analyzes DoD’s plans for 2022 as presented in the Biden Administration’s 2022 budget request and projects how those plans would affect defense costs through 2031. Those costs would increase by 10 percent over that period, CBO projects.
- Report
Availability and Use of Aircraft in the Air Force and Navy
CBO analyzes patterns in the availability and use of the Air Force’s and Department of the Navy’s aircraft since 2001. CBO also analyzes how the military aircraft have performed since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
- Presentation
The 2022 Outlook for Navy Shipbuilding: An Uncertain Course for the Future Fleet
Presentation by Eric J. Labs, an analyst in CBO’s National Security Division, to the Bank of America 2022 Defense Outlook and Commercial Aerospace Forum.
- Cost Estimate
S. 1657, South China Sea and East China Sea Sanctions Act of 2021
As reported by the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on October 28, 2021
- Cost Estimate
H.R. 5412, Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022
As reported by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on October 28, 2021
- Cost Estimate
Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Effects of S. 1605, The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022
As Passed by the House of Representatives on December 7, 2021
- Cost Estimate
Estimated Budgetary Effects of Title XII, Committee on Veterans Affairs, H.R. 5376, Build Back Better Act
As Posted on the Website of the House Committee on Rules on November 3, 2021 (Rules Committee Print 117-18), as Amended by Yarmuth Amendment 112
- Report
The Veterans Community Care Program: Background and Early Effects
CBO describes how the Department of Veterans Affairs provides health care to many veterans through the Veterans Community Care Program and how that program has affected veterans’ access to care and other outcomes.
- Cost Estimate
S. 2792, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022
As reported by the Senate Committee on Armed Services on
September 22, 2021 - Report
Illustrative Options for National Defense Under a Smaller Defense Budget
CBO examined three broad options for reconfiguring the military if funding for the Department of Defense was reduced by $1 trillion (in 2022 dollars), or 14 percent, over the next 10 years.