Accession Number ADA559723
Title Defense: FY2011 Authorization and Appropriations.
Publication Date Nov 2010
Media Count 93p
Personal Author P. Towell
Abstract The President s FY2011 budget request, released February 1, 2010, included $733.3 billion in new budget authority for national defense. In addition to $548.9 billion for the regular (non-war) operations of the Department of Defense (DOD), the request included $159.3 billion for ongoing military operations, primarily funding the campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, bringing the total DOD request for FY2011 to $708.3 billion. The balance of the national defense request amounts to $25.1 billion for defense-related activities by agencies other than DOD. The President also requested supplemental appropriations for FY2010 totaling $33.6 billion. This included $33.0 billion for war costs and $655 million to pay DOD s share of the cost of humanitarian relief operations in Haiti, struck on January 12, 2010, by a devastating earthquake. The $548.9 billion requested for DOD s so-called base budget that is, all activities other than war costs is $18.2 billion higher than the amount appropriated for DOD non-war costs in FY2010. By DOD s estimate, this 3.4% increase would amount to a real increase of 1.8% in purchasing power, after taking into account the cost of inflation. The budget request would continue the Administration s policy of increasing the share of DOD s budget invested in capabilities for counterinsurgency and other unconventional types of combat, including helicopters, special operations forces, and unmanned vehicles. The budget includes no funding to continue production of the C-17 cargo plane or to continue development of the F-136 alternate engine for the F- 35 Joint Strike Fighter, two programs Congress has funded in recent years over the objections of the Bush and Obama Administrations.
Keywords Afghanistan
Budgets
Costs
Counterinsurgency
Department of defense
Drones
Earthquakes
Haiti
Helicopters
Iraq
Military operations
National defense
Planning programming budgeting
Salaries
Unconventional warfare


 
Source Agency Non Paid ADAS
NTIS Subject Category 96 - Business & Economics
74 - Military Sciences
Corporate Author Congressional Research Service, Washington, DC.
Document Type Technical report
Title Note Congressional rept.
NTIS Issue Number 1220
Contract Number N/A

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