as reported by the Senate Armed Services Committee (Table numbers in parentheses are increases or decreases from the FY22 Request; numbers may not add due to rounding) Total National Defense Discretionary Spending (050) Allocation FY21 Enacted FY22 Request SASC Authorization DoD Discretionary Base $635.5 billion $715 billion $740.3 billion DoE Discretionary Base $26.6 billion $27.9 […]
Summary: Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 4350) as Passed
As passed by the House of Representatives (Table numbers in parentheses are increases or decreases from the FY22 Request) Total National Defense Discretionary Spending (050) Allocation FY21 Enacted FY22 Request HASC Authorization DoD Discretionary Base $635.5 billion $715 billion $739.5 billion DoE Discretionary Base $26.6 billion $27.9 billion $28.2 billion Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO)* $69 billion […]
Summary: Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 4350)
as reported by the House Armed Services Committee Total National Defense Discretionary Spending Request (050) Allocation FY21 Enacted FY22 Request HASC Authorization DoD Discretionary Base $635.5 billion $715 billion $739.5 billion DoE Discretionary Base $26.6 billion $27.9 billion $28.2 billion Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO)* $69 billion n/a n/a Defense-Related Activities $0.5 billion $0.4 billion $0.4 billion […]
Biden Defense Request Compared to Previous Annual Budgets
By Daniel Wirls, Professor of Politics, UC Santa Cruz The Biden National Defense budget presented to Congress in late January 2021 is a modest increase from the previous year but among the highest in the last 70 years in constant dollars adjusted for inflation – despite the effective end to the forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is higher […]
Fact Sheet: Nuclear Sea-Launched Cruise Missiles
Updated June 2024 Despite the Biden administration’s previous decision not to pursue the development of a new nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile (SLCM-N) and its associated warhead, the W80-4 ALT, due to cost and strategic considerations, Congress provided funding for the continuation of the SLCM-N program in the FY24 National Defense Authorization Act. In FY23 budget […]
