The Long-Term Implications of
Current Defense Plans:
Detailed Update for Fiscal Year 2004
Congressional Budget Office
February 2004
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- In January 2003, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) published The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans, which was based on the fiscal year 2003 budget and the Department of Defense's Future Years Defense Program (FYDP) of that same year. CBO updated that analysis in July 2003; its publication The Long-Term Implications of Current Defense Plans: Summary Update for Fiscal Year 2004 revised CBO's earlier work to take into account changes incorporated in the President's budget for fiscal year 2004 and the 2004 FYDP.
- Because it was a summary, the July 2003 paper omitted many of the detailed data displays contained in CBO's January 2003 study. This briefing updates those omitted displays consistent with the 2004 FYDP. The briefing does not incorporate changes to the FYDP resulting from Congressional action on the President's fiscal year 2004 budget request.
- The updated displays differ in some instances from those contained in CBO's January 2003 study. For example, the updated displays of investment spending for each of the military services provide historical data from 1980 on; the corresponding displays in the January 2003 study began with data for 2002. In some cases, corrections to CBO's historical database of procurement quantities and spending have caused changes; for example, procurement spending on the C-5 transport plane during the early 1980s is corrected in this update. And in many instances the color schemes used in the updated displays differ from those in the corresponding versions published in CBO's January 2003 study.
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