Crs Report for Congress Received through the Crs Web Defense : Fy 2006 Authorization and Appropriations May 17, 2005

By Daggett, Stephen

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Title:	Crs Report for Congress Received through the Crs Web Defense : Fy 2006 Authorization and Appropriations May 17, 2005
Author:	Daggett, Stephen
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Legislation., Government Printing Office (U.S.)
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Citation APA MLA Chicago Daggett, S. (n.d.). Crs Report for Congress Received through the Crs Web Defense : Fy 2006 Authorization and Appropriations May 17, 2005. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Excerpt
Summary: On February 7, 2005, the Administration released its FY2006 federal budget request. The request includes $441.8 billion in new budget authority for national defense, of which $421. billion is for military activities of the Department of Defense (DOD), $17.5 billion for atomic energy defense activities of the Department of Energy, and $3. billion for defense-related activities of other agencies. The FY2006 request does not include funding for ongoing military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere. On May 5, the House, and on May 10, the Senate, approved a conference agreement on a bill (H.R. 1268, P.L. 109-13) providing FY2005 supplemental appropriations for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, of $76 billion for the Department of Defense.

Table of Contents
Contents Most Recent Developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Overview: What the Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills Cover . . . . 1 Status of Legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Overview of the Administration Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Key Features of the Administration Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Continued Growth in Military Personnel and in Operation and Maintenance Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Slower Growth in Procurement and RDT&E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Program Budget Decision 753 (PBD-753) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Long-Term Defense Budget Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Key Issues for Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Funding for Iraq and Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Should Ongoing War Costs be Funded in Regular or in Supplemental Appropriations? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Guns versus Butter — 302(b) Allocations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Military Personnel Pay and Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Increases in Active Duty End-Strength . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Navy Shipbuilding — A Budgetary “Ship Wreck”? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Retiring an Aircraft Carrier and Reducing the Carrier Force to 11 . . . . . . . 20 C-130J Aircraft Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 F/A-22 Fighter Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Oversight of Programs with Cost Increases and Schedule Delays . . . . . . . . 22 Missile Defense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Army Modularization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Civilian Personnel Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Easing Environmental Regulations Affecting Military Facilities . . . . . . . . 25 New Nuclear Weapons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Women in Combat and Other “Social Issues” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Base Closures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Other Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 For Additional Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 CRS Defense Budget Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 CRS Defense Budget-Related Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Concurrent Budget Resolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Defense Authorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Appendix A: Funding Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30