Defense: FY2012 Budget Request, Authorization and Appropriations

Abstract

President Obama s FY2012 budget request, sent to Congress on February 14, 2011, included $670.9 billion in discretionary budget authority for the Department of Defense (DOD), of which $553.1 billion was for the so-called base budget of the department (that is, the cost of routine, peacetime operations excluding the cost of ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan). The remaining $117.8 billion in the DOD budget request was to cover the cost of so-called overseas contingency operations (OCO), including operations in those two countries. However, the Budget Control Act (BCA) enacted in early August 2011 set ceilings on FY2012 discretionary budget authority that required a reduction of $35.7 billion from the total requested for so-called security agencies a category that includes the DOD base budget, the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security, and State as well as the Energy Department s Nuclear National Security Agency and the international activities of other agencies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 13, 2012
Accession Number
ADA590681

Entities

People

  • Pat Towell

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircraft Carriers
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Airframes
  • Business Administration
  • Cargo Aircraft
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Employment
  • Marine Transportation
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Force Levels
  • National Security
  • Navy
  • Personnel Management
  • Short Takeoff Aircraft
  • Tanker Aircraft
  • Transport Aircraft
  • Warfare

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  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting