Defense Budget and Acquisition

The Defense Budget Analysis Program, the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, and the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy track the foremost budget issues in the defense policy sphere.

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Building a Brain of the Army Through Professional Military Education

The Army’s next revolution won’t just be fought on battlefields—it’ll be trained in classrooms. In this piece, Ben Jensen highlights how professional military education can build an AI-powered ‘brain of the Army’ ready for 2040 and beyond.

Commentary by Benjamin Jensen — June 10, 2025

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The Cost of Deterrence

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Force of the Future

Please join us for a discussion featuring a distinguished panel of experts to discuss the Pentagon's proposed reforms for the military and civilian personnel systems.

Event — September 15, 2015

War Funding, Sequestration, and the Budget Impasse

The complex politics of deficit hawks, defense hawks, and domestic program advocates has produced an impasse on the fiscal year 2016 defense budget. Sequestration threatens.

Critical Questions by Mark F. Cancian — June 12, 2015

The FY2016 Defense Budget and US Strategy: Key Trends and Data Points

Every year, the Department of Defense, OMB, the CBO, and GAO provide a wide range of materials analyzing the President’s proposed defense budget, and current trends in defense spending. These amount to thousands of pages and a wide variety of metrics, maps, charts, and other data.

Report by Anthony H. Cordesman — March 6, 2015

The FY 2016 President’s Budget

On Monday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) ushered in budget season with its annual Economic and Budget Outlook, painting a picture of an economy in recovery with the deficit projected to return this year to its lowest level since 2007, around its historical average of 2.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).

Critical Questions — January 30, 2015