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The Bottom Line
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Executive Summary 2019 presented a very rare opportunity for the Department of Defense to change the shape of the future joint force: the Trump administration has set a new st...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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2019 President’s Budget Request for Defense
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The 2019 President’s Budget request for the Department of Defense grew by $40 billion over the total requested in 2018.1 We have spent the past four weeks assessing this reque...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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2019 President's Budget Request for Defense-wide
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The Defense-wide account, colloquially known as the Fourth Estate, provides funds for all DoD activities that do not fall under one of the military services, including the Off...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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2019 President's Budget Request for the Navy and Marine Corps
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The Department of the Navy’s budget request for 2019, which includes both the Navy and the Marine Corps, increased by just under 8 percent over the 2018 president’s budget req...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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2019 President’s Budget Request for the Army
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The Army’s budget request saw more growth than any other service relative to the 2018 President’s budget request, gaining $16 billion or about 10 percent.1 With these addition...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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2019 President’s Budget Request for the Air Force
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The Air Force 2019 budget requests $194 billion in budget authority, an increase of $10 billion, or about 6 percent, over the fiscal year 2018 request.1 But the challenges the...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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Overview of the 2019 President’s Budget Request for Defense
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The Trump administration’s fiscal year 2019 budget request for the Department of Defense is $686 billion, an increase of $40 billion1 over the president’s fiscal year 2018 req...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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What to Expect in the President’s 2019 Budget Request
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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) plans to release President Trump’s fiscal year 2019 budget request on February 12. This budget request is the first that will have be...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
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A Brief History of Defense Budget Instability
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The Department of Defense (DoD) has lurched from one budgetary crisis to another for nearly a decade, through a series of continuing resolutions, short-term budget deals, and ...
By Susanna V. Blume & Lauren Fish
