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Discusses the various criticisms thrown at United States Defense Secretary Richard Cheney by the opposition for his defense budget proposal. Amount reserved for the country's defense as agreed upon by Cheney, budget director Richard Darman and President George Bush; Primary argument used by Cheney to justify the amount that he proposed for the defense budget; Accusation that Cheney had put the defense budget in political free fall, making it vulnerable to legislative cuts, by not building a strategic rationale for his budget in speeches and briefings; Career history of Cheney and why a lot of politicians respect him.

The article examines the 2014 U.S. defense budget proposed by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel for fiscal year 2015, focusing on how potential spending reductions would impact individual branches of the U.S. military. Details are provided on the possible decrease in the Army's size, training, and equipment as well as how Hagel's plan would affect the Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force.

The article reports on a defense spending bill approved by Senate appropriators in the U.S. for fiscal 2010. The measure will add 1.7 billion dollars to buy a second DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. However, according to Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel K. Inouye, the additional DDG 51 will help keep the production line going and potentially reduce costs on the program.

The article reports that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has proposed spending more than $28.1 billion in fiscal year 2008 for procurement and research in communications, electronics, telecommunications and intelligence technologies. According to industry analysts, DoD spending levels for electronics and electro-optics could reach $60 billion. DoD leaders are asking the Congress for $481.4 billion in discretionary spending.

Presents information on the fiscal 2005 appropriations approved by the U.S. House of Representatives for several government agencies and operations in the U.S. Agriculture; Defense; Foreign Operations; Military Construction; District of Columbia.

Presents several key areas where congressional Republicans disagree with U.S. President George W. Bush's budget proposal. Overall funding level; Department of Defense; Veteran's health care.

In this article the author discusses aspects of the U.S. Republican Party and efforts of conservatives to cut the budget of the Department of Defense. It is noted that a reduction in government spending on the military had long been a cause championed by progressives and the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. A number of topics are addressed including reductions in the military advocated by the conservative group Americans for Tax Reform, and efforts to reduce the military budget on the part of political operative Grover Norquist, and Eric Cantor, a Republican congressman.

Reports that the U.S. Pentagon dropped a controversial plan to lease 100 air-refueling tankers from the Boeing Company. How an alternative plan by the Pentagon could save taxpayers billions of dollars; Criticism of the Air Force by lawmakers for planning to lease planes instead of buying them at significantly cheaper prices.

Offers a look at the fiscal 2000 budget proposed by United States President Bill Clinton both by agency and by function. Agriculture; Commerce; Defense; Education; Energy; Health and Human Services; Housing and Urban Development; Justice; Labor; State; Transportation; Government branches; Independent agencies.

The article focuses on the delays, cancellations and uncertainties in the U.S. Defense Department and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) projects as Congress is in recession. The recession left conflicting proposals for the NASA funding bill, the future of the Constellation program and astronauts. Defense Secretary Robert Gates also stop several programs of the Air Force and reduce the number of airmen to save money. Gates wants to direct 100 billion dollars from administrative needs to operational needs.

The article reports that U.S. President George W. Bush has submitted to Congress the 2008 budget requests for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). The author recalls the DoD's difficulty in 1992 in obtaining its proposed budget. He points out several factors that will affect the continuing increases in the DoD budget, including demands from Social Security and Medicaid.

The article reports on the approval of the fiscal 2007 defense appropriations bill by the U.S. Senate on September 29, 2006. The bill would include $70 billion in emergency supplemental funding for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program would receive $4.3 billion for research and development under the bill. The Marine Corps will also receive funds to replace and repair its equipment.

Focuses on the increase in spending of the U.S. Defense Department for fiscal 2004. Concerns about the effect of expanded benefits for military personnel and civilian personnel on warfighting funds; Justification for the increases in defense spending; Views of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on military transformation.

Reports on the expanded spending for weapon and home defense-related research and development proposed by U.S. President George W. Bush under the fiscal 2003 budget. Budget allocation for the U.S. Department of Defense; Increase in the budget for the U.S National Science Foundation and National Aeronautics and Space Administration; Other budget allocation for research and development projects in government agencies. INSET: Canaveral...or Baikonur?.

Reports on the release of research and development (R & D) budget by the U.S. government for fiscal year 2003. Total budget for R & D; Reasons for the reduction in budget for some government agencies; Percentage of increase in budget for the U.S. National Institutes of Health; Total budget allocated for the U.S. Department of Defense R & D.

Focuses on the federal research and development spending budgets of government agencies in the United States for fiscal year 2002. Department of Defense; National Institutes of Health; National Science Foundation; Department of Agriculture.

The article reports on the fiscal 2019 budget request for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) which asks for 686.1 billion U.S. dollars in military spending. The DOD seeks a base budget of 597.1 billion dollars and an overseas contingency operations budget of 89 billion dollars. The request includes increases in the procurement budgets of the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force compared to their 2018 requests.

Focuses on the need for the US Department of Defense to learn how the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration deal with sparse budgets. Need for both organizations to slash overhead to focus on their primary missions; Defense Secretary William Cohen's dilemma in trying to shed the white elephants that have accumulated in the defense infrastructure.

The article comments on the need for restricting the practice of awarding contracts on a sole-source basis in the U.S. Defense Department. Topics discussed include pervasiveness of sole-source contracts in the Department, demand for increased competition in defense contracts to reduce wasteful defense spending, and sole-sourcing of replacement parts for the propeller for Lockheed C-130 transport planes from Hamilton Sundstrand.

Focuses on the request of the United States Department of Defense for the amended budget. Need of the money to boost Pentagon spending; Argument on the increase in the budget for missile defense; Adoption of 13 annual appropriations bills.

Charts and graphs for 2016 Fiscal Budget Request for U.S Defense Department which includes 2016 President's Budget seeking funds for Military Personnel and Procurement and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) which includes funds for NASA Mission launches, U.S is presented.

The article discusses the status of cybersecurity in the U.S. as of July 2015. Topics include the cybersecurity budgets in the Departments of Defense, Homeland Security and government-wide spending allotments in 2014, and the threat categories of traditional espionage and criminal activity. Also noted are the lack of a clear cybersecurity government policy, and the possible counterstrike by companies facing cyberattacks.

The article discusses the 2016 budget request of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). It states that the 2016 budget is for the research and procurement in military communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence (CET&I) technologies. However, military activities with electronics content like vetronics, aircraft avionics and missile guidance are excluded in the proposed budget.

The article offers several aviation news briefs related to the U.S. government as of August 20, 2012. Topics include the impact of federal budget cuts under the authority of the U.S. Sequestration Transparency Act on the Transportation and Defense departments, the primary election victory of U.S. House of Representatives member John Mica, who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, and flight hour expectations for the volunteer pilot organization Civil Air Patrol (CAP).

Discusses the proposed changes to the acquisition system of the U.S. Defense Department that may be in place by the end of 2007. Principles behind the proposed evaluation of military procurement; Comment on the plan to give combatant commanders more of a role in the acquisition process; Suggestion for improving the functions of the office of the under secretary of defense for acquisition.

The article reflects on issues and topics related to the aeronautics industry in the U.S. House members joined 19 senators in pressuring the U.S. Department of Defense to add funding in its fiscal 2009 budget proposal for the production of Boeing C-17 transport. The fiscal 2008 omnibus appropriations bill agreed to by the U.S. Congress and U.S. President George W. Bush will provide funds for non-defense departments and agencies. U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters backed away from congestion pricing at New York Kennedy and Newark airports.

This article laments the fiscal 2009 budget proposal for the U.S. Department of Defense, the last crafted by the Bush administration, will not address the needs of the Department of Defense. The budget is also the first in six years in which there is a realistic possibility that the costs of war in Iraq and Afghanistan will decrease by a meaningful degree. It explains that the Department of Defense must tend to the war's wounded, repair and replace weapons and restore stockpiles among many others, therefore the agency needs more funding.

The article deals with the proposal of the Iraq Study Group that war budgeting as well as war policy be overhauled. For four years the war has been funded through emergency supplemental requests drawn up outside the normal budgeting process, the panel complains. The study group's solution is to put all Iraq war costs in the regular budget of the U.S. Defense Department, starting with Fiscal 2008.

This article explains that the U.S. Senate still must pass a defense spending bill for Fiscal Year 2007 when it returns this week from its summertime recess. The $466.5-billion defense spending measure adopted by the Senate Appropriations Committee was bogged down amid a flurry of amendments before the recess. The Senate measure is $9 billion less than the Pentagon's request, and President George W. Bush has threatened to veto any defense measure that cuts more than $4 billion from the administration's mark.

This article explains the U.S. Department of Defence's smooth process of building an annual budget takes a dramatic turn this year. Squeezed dry for cash and out of tricks to pay for the war in Iraq, the Army decides not to submit its Fiscal 2008 budget request to the department's top civilian leadership. In past years, the DoD has said it will pay for the war through supplemental requests to Congress, although the draining effects of overseas actions have been felt in all of the Pentagon's operations and procurement accounts.

The article reports on the view of aides to the U.S. Senate Budget Committee that the acquisition program of the U.S. Department of Defense threatens to make it more difficult to control the other expenses of the department. From September 2001 through June 2006, the number of programs expensive enough to be listed in the Selected Acquisition Report (SAR) increased 23%, to 87 from 71, and total costs more than doubled, to $1.6 billion from $790 million.

The article reports on the involvement of U.S. governors in the budget talks of the Department of Defense. It notes that governors are opposing the cost-cutting plan of the Air Force to reduce the budget for National Guard planes and personnel. The governors are pushing forward with their campaign through a bipartisan 10-member council which gives advice to Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta on issues related to state Guard units. The council has persuaded Panetta to reopen the budget.

The article reports that the U.S. Department of Defense has been appropriated 513 billion dollars for fiscal 2011, with defense the only sector to receive an increase in funding in fiscal 2011.

The article offers information on the 2011 budget proposal of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) for its Air Force, Navy, Army and agency spending. It mentions that DOD proposed a total budget of $708 billion in which the $549 billion is for discretionary spending and the $159 billion is for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Further, it notes that DOD also proposed $17.45 billion for communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence (CET&I) technologies.

The article reports on the bill that will provide 134.6 billion dollars for the Department of Defense military construction projects and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in the U.S. It states that the bill will fund discretionary programs and advance appropriations for the medical accounts of the veterans in the VA. It adds that the bill will also fund military construction projects for the Defense Department including base closings, operational facilities, and active duty units.

The article presents a humorous discussion about the revelation that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) paid millions of dollars to the National Football League (NFL) and teams such as the Atlanta Falcons to promote patriotism and America's military during NFL games, and it mentions NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's promise to reimburse the U.S. government for any inappropriate payments. It states that professional hockey, basketball, and baseball teams were also paid money by the DOD.

The article talks about the request of President George W. Bush administration for a $100-$128 billion in emergency supplemental spending in addition to the $447 billion 2007 budget of the U.S. Department of Defense. The military services provide less detail on how the money is spent and in line with this, Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England asked the military services to consider items required to fight terrorism to be accounted for the emergency funding request.

The article discusses the expenditures of the U.S. Department of Defense. According to the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association, military defense expenses will incur a yearly increase of $609.4 billion and expects $80 billion expenditure for homeland security. The government plans to decrease the supplemental spending and they check whether the spending is beneficial to all.

This article states that the U.S. Senate has began what is expected to be a lengthy debate on the fiscal 2007 Defense authorization bill. In a key early vote, senators unanimously approved an amendment by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that would force the military to pay for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan from its regular budget, rather than through "emergency" supplemental spending bills, which are not counted against the federal deficit.

The article comments on the ACI proposed by U.S. President George W. Bush. The proposal has added to the debate on innovation policy. As detailed in a white paper released by the Office of Science and Technology Policy, ACI advocates doubling research funding at the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Department of Energy's Office of Science over a period of 10 years and increasing basic and applied research funding in Department of Defense. ACI would make the R&D tax credit permanent and create Career Advancement Accounts of up to $3,000 for workers who are beginning, changing or advancing in a career.

The article discusses a report of analysts at the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association (GEIA), which conclude that the U.S. defense spending has increased in 2006. However, the report states that a decline in spending levels at the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is expected in the following years. Several factors contributing to the projected decline in defense spending are the political pressure to reduce the national deficit and taxes and increase spending for Social Security and Medicare.

Provides an update on a U.S. bill that would authorize $441.6 billion in fiscal 2006 defense spending. Outlook for the bill; Synopsis; Legislative actions taken as of September 5, 2005.

Presents a tabular representation of the status of several appropriation bills at the U.S. Congress as of August 5, 2005. Agriculture; Defense; Homeland Security.

Reports on the plans by the U.S. Congress to scrutinize and decrease defense appropriations in the 2005 budget requested by the U.S. Department of Defense amid projection of growing budget deficit. Other factors influencing decisions on defense appropriations; Issues on the cost of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan raised by Democrats; Argument of defense secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld against criticisms on the defense budget request.

Focuses on the defense authorization bill for fiscal 2003 in the U.S. Background on some of the provisions of the bill; Role of the bill in the modification of the requirements mandated by the U.S. Congress in an earlier legislation; Amount of the budget allocated to the U.S. Department of Defense and defense-related programs of the U.S. Department of Energy according to the bill; Budget authorized by the bill for the shipbuilding projects of the U.S. Navy.