1、 Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments 1667 K Street NW,Suite 900,Washington DC 20006 Thinking Smarter About Defense www.CSBAonline.org|202-331-7990|Fax 202-331-8019 FEBRUARY 2012 THE FISCAL YEAR 2013 DEFENSE BUDGET:CONTINUITY OR CHANGE?By Todd Harrison The Department of Defense(DoD)budget
2、request released today includes$525.4 billion in base discretionary funding,$6.3 billion in mandatory funding,and$88.5 billion in Overseas Contingency Operations funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.This is the first budget request to follow the Budget Control Act of 2011(BCA),which capped t
3、he level of defense spending each year through fiscal year(FY)2021.The Departments preview of the budget on January 26 left few surprises for the actual budget release.What is more interesting in this budget request are the major changes that were not madethe dogs that didnt barkand the open questio
4、ns that remain for many of the proposals it includes.The Dogs That Didnt Bark Aircraft Carriers:While the overall number of ships in the inventory declines,the budget request maintains 11 carriers in the fleet.The Navy could have canceled the next Ford-class replacement carrier but instead decided t
