by Laicie Heeley and Kingston Reif The conference report on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 provides $530 billion for the Pentagon’s base budget, as well as $116 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and $17 billion for nuclear weapons-related spending at the Department of Energy. The total bill, at $662 […]
FY12 Authorization
Additional Cuts to the Fiscal Year 2012 Defense Authorization Bill
by Laicie Heeley On November 15, 2011, the Senate Armed Services Committee revised the fiscal year (FY) 2012 defense authorization bill to include $21 billion in additional cuts, as mandated by the Budget Control Act. The bill would continue to shift funding from the base budget to the war funding account, a controversial move also […]
A Review of the House Version of the Fiscal Year 2012 Defense Authorization Bill
by Kingston Reif On May 26 the House approved the FY 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 1540). Below is a review and analysis of the nuclear weapons related provisions in the bill, both good and bad. For easier reading, the contents include: I. New START implementation and further nuclear weapons reductions II. Nuclear targeting […]
