The FY2019 Defense Budget Request: An Overview

Abstract

The Presidents FY2019 budget request includes $726.8 billion for national defense, a major function of the federal budget that includes funding primarily for Department of Defense (DOD) programs but also for defense-related activities administered by other federal agencies. National defense is one of 20 major functions used by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to organize budget dataand the largest in terms of discretionary spending. The national defense budget function (identified by the numerical notation 050) comprises three subfunctions: DODMilitary (051); atomic energy defense activities primarily of the Department of Energy (DOE) (053); and other defense-related activities (054), such as Federal Bureau of Investigation counterintelligence activities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 09, 2018
Accession Number
AD1169638

Entities

People

  • Brendan W. Mcgarry

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Aircraft Carriers
  • Aircrafts
  • Arleigh Burke Class
  • Budgets
  • Congress
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Department Of Defense
  • Discretionary Spending
  • Energy
  • Federal Budgets
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Law
  • Military Budgets
  • Military Operations
  • Military Personnel
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Tanker Aircraft
  • United States
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.