While President Obama’s $668 billion defense budget request for Fiscal 2010 reflects a historic high level of funding, there are implications beyond the future years defense plan since increased personnel costs, particularly for health care, will begin to crowd out other areas of the budget, suggests a new analysis by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. In Fiscal 2010, health care accounts for about $47 billion of the defense request and, at its current rate of growth, is on track to nearly double every 10 years, Todd Harrison, CSBA fellow, told journalists during an Aug. 12 briefing in Washington, D.C. Continue
The rate of building B-21 bombers would speed up if the fiscal 2026 defense budget passes. But it remains unclear how much capacity would be added, and whether the Air Force would simply build the bombers faster, or buy more.
