The Bush Administration has requested the following funding for the military.
The Bush Administration is requesting $484.1 billion for the Department of Defense in Fiscal Year 2008, which begins on October 1, 2007. This is $49 billion more than the current level of $432.4 billion, an increase of 11.3 percent, and inflation-adjust ("real") increase of 8.6 percent. This figure does not include funding for the nuclear weapons activities of the Department of Energy, which is considered part of total Defense Department spending. Nor does this figure include the costs of ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Breakdown of popular weapon systems.
The ballistic missile defense program receives more funding than any other weapons system in the annual Pentagon budget.
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) continue to prove their worth on the modern battlefield performing a wide range of surveillance missions and an increasing number of strike missions as more and different types of armed UAVs enter the aresenal.
The Fiscal Year 2008 budget request includes $930 billion for discretionary spending (the money the President and Congress must decide and act to spend each year), roughly $481 billion of which will go to the Pentagon.
On February 5 the Bush Administration released its budget request for Fiscal Year 2008, which begins on October 1, 2007. As part of this request, the White House is seeking $644 billion for the military -- $502 billion for the Pentagon and the nuclear weapons-related activities of the Department of Energy, and an additional $142 billion for the “Global War on Terrorism.
The Bush Administration is requesting $439.3 billion for the Department of Defense in Fiscal Year 2007, which begins on October 1, 2006. This is $28.5 billion more than the current level of $410.7 billion, an increase of 7 percent. This figure does not include funding for the nuclear weapons activities of the Department of Energy, which is considered part of total Defense Department spending. Nor does this figure include the costs of ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. In all, military spending in the coming fiscal year will likely be in excess of $550 billion dollars.
The Bush Administration has requested the following funding for the military.
The Bush Administration is requesting $439.3 billion for the Department of Defense in Fiscal Year 2007, which begins on October 1, 2006. This is $28.5 billion more than the current level of $410.7 billion, an increase of 7 percent. This figure does not include funding for the nuclear weapons activities of the Department of Energy, which is considered part of total Defense Department spending. Nor does this figure include the costs of ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. In all, military spending in the coming fiscal year will likely be in excess of $550 billion dollars.
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