[Budget of the United States Government]
[III. Creating a Better Government]
[2. National Defense]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]
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2. NATIONAL DEFENSE
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Table 2-1. Federal Resources in Support of National Defense
(In millions of dollars)
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Estimate
Function 050 2000 -----------------------------------------------------------
Actual 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
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Spending:
Discretionary Budget Authority.......... 300,767 311,271 325,079 333,934 343,194 352,704 362,515
Mandatory Outlays:
Existing law.......................... -470 -445 -122 -182 -517 -555 -630
Proposed legislation.................. ........ ........ 97 155 150 108 68
Credit Activity:
Direct loan disbursements............... ........ 32 72 136 201 ........ ........
Guaranteed loans........................ 47 39 120 518 537 ........ ........
Tax Expenditures:
Existing law............................ 2,140 2,160 2,190 2,210 2,240 2,260 2,290
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The Federal Government will allocate $325 billion in 2002 to defend
the United States, its citizens, its allies, and to protect and advance
American interests around the world. National defense programs and
activities ensure that the United States maintains strong, ready, and
modern military forces to promote U.S. objectives in peacetime, deter
conflict, and if necessary, successfully defend our Nation and its
interests in wartime.
Over the past half-century, our defense program has fielded forces for
conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, and Southwest Asia, deterred both
conventional and nuclear attack on U.S. soil, helped bring an end to the
Cold War, and successfully executed numerous contingency operations.
Today, the United States military remains the strongest on earth, but it
still faces a number of challenges. These include assuring that military
personnel are adequately paid, their families are adequately housed, and
that they receive the necessary training and equipment to do their jobs.
In order to meet the challenges of the 21st Century, the President has
asked the Secretary of Defense to conduct a major review that will
analyze the Nation's military strategy, the structure of our Armed
Forces, and defense spending priorities.
Department of Defense (DOD)
The DOD budget provides for the pay, training, operation, basing, and
support of U.S. military forces, and for the development and acquisition
of equipment. DOD sustains the capabilities that follow to achieve its
objectives.
Conventional Forces: Conventional forces include ground forces such as
infantry and tank units; air forces such as tactical aircraft; naval
forces such as aircraft carriers, destroyers, and attack submarines; and
Marine Corps expeditionary forces. The Nation needs conventional forces
to deter aggression and, when that fails, to defeat it. Funds to support
these forces cover pay and benefits for military personnel; the
purchase, operation, and maintenance of conventional systems such as
tanks, aircraft, and ships; the purchase of ammunition and spare parts;
and training.
Mobility Forces: Mobility forces provide the airlift and sealift that
transport military personnel and materiel throughout the world. They
play a critical role in U.S. defense strategy and are a vital part of
America's response to contingencies that range from humanitarian relief
efforts to major theater wars. Airlift aircraft provide a flexible,
rapid way to deploy
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forces and supplies quickly to distant regions, while sealift ships
allow the deployment of large numbers of heavy forces together with
their fuel and supplies. The mobility program includes prepositioning
equipment and supplies at sea or on land near the location of a
potential crisis, allowing U.S. forces that must respond rapidly to
crises overseas to quickly draw upon these prepositioned items. The
mobility program also ensures that DOD will have access to a fleet of
active, militarily useful, privately-owned U.S. vessels that would be
available in times of national emergency.
Strategic Forces: Nuclear forces are an essential element of our
national deterrent posture. They include land-based intercontinental
ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, long-range
bombers, and sub-strategic forces. In addition to offensive forces, the
President has established the deployment of effective missile defenses
as a top Administration policy. To deter new threats, including weapons
of mass destruction and increasingly sophisticated ballistic missiles,
we require offensive and defensive systems working together. The
President has initiated a review to determine how to put this new
concept of deterrence into effect.
Supporting Activities: Supporting activities include research and
development, communications, intelligence, training and medical
services, central supply and maintenance, and other logistics
activities. In particular, the Defense Health Program provides health
care through DOD facilities, as well as through TRICARE--its contracted,
civilian network companion program.
DOD Performance
The President has asked the Secretary of Defense to conduct a major
review to analyze the Nation's military strategy, the structure of our
Armed Forces, and the defense budget priorities. The results of this
review will lay the foundation for DOD's future goals, clarify key
performance measures, and guide future decisions on military spending.
Consequently, DOD's 2002 Performance Plan will be prepared following the
completion of this review. The Administration will determine final 2002
and outyear funding levels only when the review is complete.
DOD's Performance Report for 2000 examined the Department's success in
achieving the goals outlined in its 2000 Performance Plan. The
Performance Report highlighted several critical long-term goals
accomplished by DOD in 2000.
Overseas Presence: During 2000, U.S. military forces supported
a variety of peacetime deployments worldwide. Many of these
missions were undertaken as part of the almost 200 annual
joint and combined exercises sponsored by DOD.
Recruitment: During 2000, aggregate active and reserve
component forces met recruiting and quality goals.
Joint Experiments: In its second year as the lead for joint
experimentation, the U.S. Joint Forces Command conducted 19
transformation-related joint experiments in 2000--more than 35
percent above original projections.
Infrastructure Streamlining: The portion of the defense budget
spent on infrastructure decreased from a high of 45 percent in
1995 and 1996 to 42 percent in 1999. DOD exceeded its target
for disposing of excess land and demolishing unused buildings.
DOD was also able to surpass its target of 90 percent asset
visibility and to exceed its target for reducing the National
Defense Stockpile.
Acquisition Reform: During 2000, 79 percent of DOD
transactions in the areas of contracting, program management,
and logistics were processed electronically. In addition, 95
percent of all micro-purchases under $2,500 were made with
purchase cards. Finally, the acquisition work force was
reduced by an additional five percent (relative to 1997), and
DOD completed disposal of over 50 percent of Government
surplus property--147,000 cumulative acres.
Financial Management: DOD has reduced the number of accounting
and finance systems from 324 in 1991 to 76 in 2000. At the end
of 2000, 13 accounting and finance systems were reported to be
compliant with legislative requirements.
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The Department will also seek to improve management and efficiency by:
(1) reducing cost growth and cycle times on major weapon systems to less
than one percent and eight years, respectively; (2) eliminating excess
infrastructure; (3) expanding annual public-private A-76 competitions;
and (4) developing better measurement of inadequate defense housing.
Department of Energy (DOE) Performance
DOE's defense missions include national security and environmental
remediation. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is
responsible for maintaining a safe, secure, and reliable nuclear weapons
stockpile, improving nuclear nonproliferation, and managing the naval
nuclear propulsion program. The goal of DOE's Environmental Management
(EM) program is to clean up the legacy of contamination from nuclear
weapons programs.
The NNSA and EM programs continue to experience delays and cost
overruns in managing contracts and acquiring capital assets. DOE intends
to increase performance-based contracting and improve project management
to achieve significant cost savings for the taxpayers.
The budget proposes $13.4 billion to meet DOE's national security and
environmental objectives, of which $7.2 billion is for ongoing national
security missions and $6.2 billion addresses environmental cleanup
activities.
In 2002, DOE will achieve the following performance goals:
National Security
Report annually to the President on the need to resume
underground nuclear testing to certify the safety and
reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile.
Meet the milestones in DOE's science campaigns to improve
understanding of nuclear weapons systems to certify annually
the nuclear weapons stockpile without underground testing.
Meet all annual weapons maintenance and refurbishment
schedules jointly developed by DOE and DOD.
Continue consolidation of weapons-usable material into fewer
buildings and fewer sites in Russia. Convert an additional 1.7
metric tons of weapons grade highly enriched uranium to low
enriched uranium, increasing the total converted to 3.8 metric
tons.
Environmental Quality
Complete remediation of one geographic site, bringing the
total number of sites cleaned up to 75 out of a total of 113.
Clean up 64 release sites, bringing the number completed to
more than 5,166 of a total inventory of approximately 10,000
release sites. (A release site is a specific location where
hazardous, radioactive, or mixed waste has or is suspected to
have been discharged.)
Treat high-level waste in the Defense Waste Processing
Facility at the Savannah River site to produce 150 canisters
of solidified waste, bringing the total produced to 1,576 of
the estimated 19,179 required.
Ship 3,149 cubic meters of transuranic waste to the Waste
Isolation Pilot Plant, bringing the total waste shipped to
6,227 cubic meters out of 175,600 cubic meters requiring
disposal.
Other Defense-Related Activities
Several other national defense activities are implementing
performance measurement. These include: the Coast Guard; the Federal
Bureau of Investigation; the American Battle Monuments Commission;
Arlington National Cemetery; and the Selective Service System.
The Coast Guard supports the defense mission through overseas
deployments for engagements with friends and allies, port security
teams, boarding and inspection teams for enforcing UN sanctions,
training, aids to navigation, international icebreaking, equipment
maintenance, and support of the Coast Guard Reserve.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation conducts counterintelligence and
surveillance activities.
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The American Battle Monuments Commission is reducing the backlog of
maintenance and continuing productivity improvements at cemeteries and
memorials overseas.
Arlington National Cemetery is implementing a capital investment plan
for using contiguous land sites that will be vacated by the Services,
including the Navy Annex and portions of Fort Myer. A review is underway
of the demographics of the four million annual visitors to this national
historic shrine.
The Selective Service System is modernizing its registration process
to promote military recruiting among registrants, and in cooperation
with DOD, is reducing active duty and reserve force officers to reflect
the reduced readiness requirements, and to fund additional automation.