Updated June 1, 2022 FY22 enacted levels come from FY 2023 President’s Budget documents and the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation’s Final Summary: Fiscal Year 2022 Defense and Energy & Water Development Appropriations Bills (H.R. 2471) Total National Defense Discretionary Spending Request (050) *Does not include mandatory spending **Does not include $14.3 billion in […]
Final Summary: Fiscal Year 2022 Defense and Energy & Water Development Appropriations Bills (H.R. 2471)
All table numbers in parentheses are increases or decreases from the President’s FY 2022 Budget Request (referred to below as Request). National Defense Discretionary Spending (050) Allocation Request Enacted DoD Discretionary Base $715 billion $743.4 billion DoE Discretionary Base $27.9 billion $29.1 billion Other Defense-Related Activities $9.9 billion $9.8 billion Total* $753 billion $782 billion […]
China, Russia advancing hypersonic weapons raises concerns at Pentagon
Senior Policy Director John Erath was quoted in The National Desk (TND) discussing the Pentagon’s push for American defense contractors to accelerate development of hypersonic weapons to compete with Russia and China. “As I understand the technologies involved, you have to fail a lot of times before you get it right,” said John Erath, senior policy […]
Final Summary: Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (S. 1605)
On July 21, 2021, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved S. 2792, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, by a vote of 23-3. On September 23, 2021, the House passed H.R. 4350, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, by a vote of 316-113. Despite multiple attempts to bring a number of amendments and the […]
Senate Appropriations Committee Version of FY 2022 Defense Appropriations Bill
Legislative Status The bill is in draft form from the Senate Appropriations Committee. It has not gone through Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, full Appropriations Committee or the Senate floor. It is not clear how far the bill will move through the legislative process. It could go directly to conference with the House version of the bill, which has cleared defense […]
