by Kingston Reif
Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) Program
- Administration Request: $88.8 million for the Department of Energy; $30 million for the Department of Defense
- Final Action: $0 for the Department of Energy; $15 million for the Department of Defense
Reprocessing Nuclear Waste
- Administration Request: $405 million
- Final Action: $179 million (as part of Department of Energy Appropriations)
Total Funding for Nonproliferation Programs
(Including programs funded through the Defense Department, State Department, and Department of Energy)
- Administration Request: $3.36 billion
- Final Action: $3.683 billion
Cooperative Threat Reduction (Nunn-Lugar Program)
- Administration Request: $348 million
- Final Action: $428 million
Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI)
- Administration Request: $115.5 million
- Final Action: $195 million (as part of Department of Energy appropriations)
International Nuclear Material Protection & Cooperation
- Administration Request: $371 million
- Final Action: $603.2 million (as part of Department of Energy appropriations)
Space Test Bed (Space-Based Missile Defense)
- Administration Request: $10 million
- Final Action: $0
Conventional Trident Modification Program
(To equip Trident II submarine-launched missiles with non-nuclear warheads)
- Administration Request: $175 million
- Final Action: $0 ($100 million was appropriated solely for alternatives to the Conventional Trident Modification Program)
Missile Defense Programs
- Administration Request: $10.3 billion (includes missile defense, research and development, and procurement)
- Final Action: $9.9 billion ($85 million was ultimately cut from the $310 million requested to begin deployment of anti-missile interceptors in Poland and an associated radar in the Czech Republic)
Programs to Promote Democracy in Iran
- Administration Request: $108.71 million
- Final Action: $60 million (as part of Foreign Operations Appropriations)
Defense “Base” Budget
(Included in the scope of FY2008 Defense Appropriations Bill (H.R. 3222), which excludes funding for ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, military construction, and the nuclear weapons activities of the Department of Energy)
- Administration Request: $452.2 billion
- Final Action: $448.7 billion
Iraq and Afghanistan War Funding
- Administration Request: $196 billion in FY2008 Supplemental Appropriations Bill
- Final Action (to date): $87 billion (including $70 billion for general military operations and nearly $17 billion for Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles)
