OFFICE OF THE UNDER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE

(COMPTROLLER)/CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

MAY 2021

Defense Budget Overview

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
FISCAL YEAR 2022 BUDGET REQUEST 0
 Interim National Security Strategic Guidance
Renewing America’s Advantages
• Emphasizes whole-of-government approach to lead from a position of
strength and by the power of our example
– Modernize our military capabilities, while leading first with diplomacy
– Display global leadership and revitalize our alliances and partnerships worldwide
– Lift up our democratic values at home and defend them around the world

• Recognizes many of the greatest threats to American prosperity and

security are borderless challenges requiring collective action including
– Climate crisis, global pandemics, cyber threats, and nuclear proliferation

• Lays framework to meet challenges posed by strategic competition

– Shift resources from legacy and less capable platforms
– Redirect investments in cutting-edge technologies and capabilities

• Prioritizes health of national security workforce

– Directs DoD to ensure it’s a workplace of equal opportunity and free of sexual
harassment and assault
– Emphasizes professional integrity, accountability, and transparency

Provides Strategic Direction to DoD and informs the Department’s priorities

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 FY 2022 Budget Themes - SecDef Priorities
Defend the Nation

Maintain and
Innovate and Take Care of our
Enhance Military People
Modernize
Readiness

Succeed Through Teamwork

• Secretary Austin’s Message to the Force builds on the President’s Interim

National Security Strategic Guidance

• Pursuit of our national security interests requires investments that target

and align our priorities and capabilities to address the constantly evolving
and dynamic threat landscape

We need resources matched to strategy, strategy matched to policy, and policy

matched to the will of the American People
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 FY 2022 National Defense Budget Request
(Dollars in Billions)

By Department/Agency FY 2021 FY 2022

Army 174.3 172.7
Navy 207.1 211.7
Air Force 204.0 212.8
Defense-Wide 118.4 117.8
Department of Defense – Total 703.7 715.0
Department of Energy & Other Agencies 37.0 37.9
National Defense – Total 740.7 752.9
Numbers may not add due to rounding

• FY 2022 DoD budget reflects a 1.6% increase from FY 2021 enacted

• Resources matched to strategy – shifting resources and aligning forces to
priority theaters/regions
– Ending the war in Afghanistan and rebalancing CENTCOM forces
– Reallocating resources to higher priorities – strategic competition, modernization

• Direct war and enduring operations costs included within base budget
‒ No separate Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) request

Invests in the People, Priorities, and Purpose of Mission that will Renew
America’s Advantage and support the United States efforts to advance our
defense priorities
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 Defend the Nation
• Defeat COVID-19 – Greatest proximate challenge to our Nation’s Security
– Act boldly and support Federal Government efforts to defeat COVID, defend the force
against it, and invest in pandemic preparedness for the future

• Prioritize China as the Pacing Challenge

– Develop right operational concepts, capabilities, and plans to
bolster deterrence and maintain our competitive advantage
– Utilize Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI) to focus and adequately
resource capabilities and efforts toward the China challenge

• Address Advanced and Persistent Threats

– Deter nation-state threats emanating from Russia, Iran, and North Korea
– Disrupt transnational and non-state actor threats from violent extremist organizations

• Innovate and Modernize the DoD

– Innovate at speed and scale to match a dynamic threat landscape
– Divest of legacy systems and programs while investing smartly for the future

• Tackle the Climate Crisis

– Elevate climate as a national security priority
– Integrate climate into policy, strategy, and partner engagements
Our most solemn obligation to protect the security of the American people
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 Defend the Nation
Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI)
• The FY 2022 request funds $5.1B for PDI to maintain a conventional military
advantage necessary to deter aggression in the Indo-Pacific region.

• The PDI was created in response to FY 2021 National Defense Authorization

Act direction and was established to increase conventional capability and
readiness, enhance U.S. deterrence and defense posture, and assure allies
and partners.

• The PDI highlights specific DoD investments which will:

– Demonstrate U.S. commitment to preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific;
– Build forces that are resilient, ready and postured to respond quickly and effectively
against aggression; and
– Help strengthen Indo-Pacific alliances and partnerships that are central to the U.S.
vision of a free, open, and rules-based Indo-Pacific regional order
PDI Investments by Category ($ in billions) FY 2022
Force Design and posture <$0.1
Exercises, Experimentation, and Innovation $0.2
Joint Force Lethality $4.9
Strengthening Alliances and Partnerships <$0.1

The Department will prioritize China as our number one pacing challenge
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 Defend the Nation
Tackling the Climate Crisis
Preparing for, adapting to, and mitigating impacts of climate change
• Climate change poses unique challenges to
DoD missions, facilities and operations, in
addition to the security of allies and partners.
• FY 2022 request includes $617 million of new
investments across four categories --
‒ Strengthening Installation Mission Resilience
($263 million)
‒ Science and Technology (S&T) ($186 million)
‒ Enhancing Capability and Leveraging DoD
Buying Power ($153 million)
o Operational Energy Improvements (OE)
o Installation Energy Capability (IE)
o Modernizing Non-tactical Fleet with EVs
‒ Climate-informed Wargaming, Analysis, and
Contingency Planning ($15 million)

Elevate climate as a national security priority and integrate climate

considerations into our policies, strategies, and partner engagements
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 Innovate and Modernize
Nuclear Enterprise and Missile Defeat and Defense

• $27.7 billion for Nuclear Enterprise Modernization

– Continues production of Columbia-class submarine to Modernize and recapitalize
deliver 1st ship in 2028 the nuclear triad to
reduce transition
– Ground Based Midcourse Defense (GBSD) and B-21
risk and support Nuclear
programs on track to meet initial fielding dates
Posture Review initiatives
– Recapitalizes key Nuclear Command, Control, and
Communications (NC3) systems

• $20.4 billion for Missile Defeat and Defense

– Develops Next Generation Interceptor for Ground-Based
Midcourse Defense
– New Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense interceptor,
leading to FY23 flight test
– Strengthens regional missile defense network with Patriot
Missiles, Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense System, and
Short Range Air Defense Battalions

Nuclear capabilities are the bedrock of American defense and will remain so…
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 Innovate and Modernize
Long Range Fires

• $6.6 billion to develop and field multi-Service, multi-domain

offensive Long Range Fires
– Field Hypersonic Weapons within the FYDP
• Air: Test and produces Hypersonic Missile by FY22
• Land: Field Hypersonic Missile Battery by FY23
• Maritime: Field Hypersonic Missiles on DDG1000 in FY25
– Expand Capacity of Survivable Weapons for New and Existing
Launch Platforms
• Air: Max JASSM-ER/LRASM procurement
• Land: Ground Launch Cruise Missile Batteries by FY23
• Maritime: Increase survivability and capacity of Tomahawk and
Standard Missile-6 (SM-6)

Provide forces with the ability to strike deep, time-sensitive targets and deter
adversaries
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 Innovate and Modernize
S&T and Advanced Capability Enablers

• $112.0 billion RDT&E budget is the largest ever

– Increases 5.1% over FY 2021 request
• Science & Technology: $14.7 billion
– 4.1 percent increase over FY 2021 request
– Maintains Basic Research at $2.3 billion
• Microelectronics: $2.3 billion
– Improves assurance, availability, and access to
advanced capability microelectronics
• Artificial Intelligence (AI): $874 million
– Maintains AI as a top technology modernization priority
– Over 600 AI efforts now underway
• 5G: $398 million
– Leverages 5G technologies and networks for military
applications

Innovate at speed and scale to match the dynamic threat landscape

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 Innovate and Modernize
Lethal Air, Combat Effective Naval, and Ground Forces
• $52.4 billion for Lethal Air Forces
– Procures and modernizes mix of 4th & 5th Generation fighters
– Develops 6th Generation TACAIR capability
– Continues tanker recapitalization plan (KC-10/135 to KC-46)
• $34.6 billion for Combat Effective Naval Forces
– Develops and produces balanced, hybrid fleet of manned and
unmanned platforms
• 8 Battle Force Ships: 1x DDG, 1x Frigate, and 2x Virginia-class
submarines
• Matures Unmanned Undersea Vehicle technology for FY23
production
– Develops future stand-in, expeditionary Marine forces
– Recapitalizes the naval combat logistics force
• $12.3 billion for Ground Forces
– Procures and fields Precision Strike Missile to replace legacy
ATACMS missiles
– Fields Next Generation Squad Weapon to 1st units in FY22
– Develops and procures next generation combat vehicles

Fields combat credible platforms in relevant quantities

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 Innovate and Modernize
Space and Space-Based Systems
• $20.6 billion in vital space capabilities, resilient architectures, and
enhanced space command and control to ensure the Joint Force
prevails in a global, all-domain fight
• Procures and modernizes capabilities to secure the use of space in the
face of increasing threats to US national security space systems
– Missile Warning: $2.6 billion increase to Next-Gen OPIR development
– $1.8 billion for Position, Navigation, and Timing funds procurement of 2 GPS III
Follow-On satellites & accelerates hardening of PNT signals to protect against
jamming
– Space Launch: $1.7 billion to fund 5 launch vehicles
– Resilient Architectures: $936.7 million for SDA -- funds aggressive development of
proliferated LEO solutions, including data transport and missile warning

Invests in next-generation space domain capabilities to secure an enduring

competitive advantage
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 Innovate and Modernize
Cyberspace Activities
Key portfolios of DoD Cyberspace Activities:
• Cybersecurity – Securing the DoD Information Network
• Cyberspace Operations – Cyber Collection/Intelligence,
Offensive/Defensive Cyber Operations, Cyber Mission
Forces, and infrastructure supporting Cyber Operations
• R&D in support of Cyber – Research and Development in
support of Cybersecurity and Cyberspace Operations

$10.4 billion committed to cyberspace activities in FY 2022

• Increases capabilities in Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM), Comply-to-
Connect (C2C), and Automated Continuous Endpoint Monitoring (ACEM) to accelerate a
Zero Trust framework.
• Provides improved integrated cyber capabilities that support Combatant Commander military
Cyber operations and contingencies.
• More effective risk mediation activities focused on critical infrastructure vulnerabilities and
the Defense Industrial Base (DIB).
• Grows the Cyber Mission Force from 133 to 137 (+4) Teams.
• Continues development of the Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture (JCWA) that will provide
secure connect and integrated information/capabilities to the Cyber Mission Forces.

Ensuring delivery of Cyber capabilities at the speed of need

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 Innovate and Modernize
Divestments
• $2.8 billion in divestments of older and less-capable platforms and
programs that no longer meet mission and/or security needs
– To address the dynamic threat landscape, the Department must divest of outdated
systems and programs and to invest in cutting-edge technologies and capabilities
– The Services and USSOCOM are realigning resources to match strategy, including
focused divestment of ships, aviation, and information technology
– FY 2022 builds on FY 2020 and FY 2021 initiatives through targeted divestment of:
• Army ($47.8M): Divests night vision imaging system, missile launcher, electronic warfare, & IT
• Navy ($1.3B): Decommissions ships (CG, LSD, LCS) and divests aircraft (F/A-18 A-D, RQ-21)
• Air Force ($1.4B): Divests aircraft (A-10, F-15 C/D, F-16 C/D, KC-135, KC-10, C-130H, E-8, RQ-4)
• USSOCOM ($117.9M): Divests intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR)

• Divestment decisions are rigorously reviewed, analyzed, and debated to

ensure we retain the capabilities needed to be ready to fight tonight, while
investing smartly for the future
• The Department will partner with Congress to balance the need to
modernize to address developing threats while sustaining critical industrial
base capabilities
Redirecting resources to top priority programs, platforms, and systems
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 Maintain and Enhance Military Readiness
• Sustains readiness gains and enhances capabilities across
the Services and USSOCOM ($122.1 billion)
– Army ($27.8 billion): Funds ground and air readiness objectives,
installation support, decisive action training, and support to allies
and partners
– Navy ($48.5 billion): Funds Navy depot maintenance, ship and
aircraft operations, and integrated training exercises. Funds Marine
Corps advance warfighting, including ground and air readiness,
infrastructure, and training exercises
– Air Force ($36.5 billion): Funds Weapons System Sustainment and
flying hours to maintain readiness, analytics to reduce sustainment
cost, and full-spectrum training exercises. Funds Space Force
launch operations, depot maintenance, and early warning
capabilities
– USSOCOM ($9.4 billion): Funds modernized ranges and
simulators, full-spectrum SOF exercises, and invests in artificial
intelligence to speed analysis
• Execute POTUS direction on Afghanistan drawdown
– Rebalance Joint Force presence – responsive to global threats.
– Resource Combatant Command and Joint Force requirements
consistent with SecDef Directed Readiness
Builds on current readiness gains and modernizes for the future fight
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 Take Care of Our People
SD Message: Our most critical asset as a Department is our
people. To remain the preeminent fighting force in the world,
we must –
• Grow our Talent – invest in education and training and create
new opportunities for advancement
• Build Resilience and Force Readiness – embrace a diversity of
backgrounds, experiences, and thought; building equity and
inclusion in everything we do
• Ensure Accountable Leadership – build a safe environment for
our people and show swift and clear accountability to anyone
who does not act within the highest standards of the Department

Competitive Compensation and Benefits:

• Includes 2.7% pay raise for both military and civilian
personnel
• Sustains family support initiatives – invests $8.6 billion
– Professional development and education opportunities for Service
members and military spouses
– Quality, affordable child development programs for over 160K
children and youth programs serving over 1 million family members
– DoD Dependent Schools educating over 74K students

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 Take Care of Our People (continued)
Facilities Investment
• Prioritizes investment in construction, improvement,
and maintenance for operational and support facilities
– Requests 17 percent increase above FY 2021 appropriated levels
for Military Construction to support operational facilities, global
defense posture initiatives, and a more efficient and productive
infrastructure footprint
– Supports enhanced operational readiness via $1 billion increase for
critical facilities sustainment, repair, and modernization efforts
– Fully funds executable remediation efforts for Per- and
Polyfluroalkyl Substances (PFAS) at former DoD locations closed
through Base Realignment and Closure efforts

• Reinforces the Department’s commitment to provide

safe and quality residences to Service Members and
their families
– Continues focus on implementing actions to improve the quality of
both privatized and government owned family housing
– Builds on last year’s family housing funding increases to enable
further housing oversight, construction, and maintenance

Investing in facilities improvement and high-quality housing to ensure our

people can serve safely and effectively
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 Succeed Through Teamwork
• Join Forces with our Allies and Partners
– SD focus on “integrated deterrence” -- U.S. military to buttress diplomacy and advance a
foreign policy that employs all instruments of our national power
– Prioritize rebuilding our mutually beneficial defense relationships around the world to
maintain U.S. military’s competitive edge far from American shores
• Build partner nation capacity and increase interoperability
• Embrace international cooperation toward a better, safer, more resilient, more prosperous world

• Work in Partnership with Our Nation

– The Department will help America Build Back Better by investing in critical supply chains,
the US manufacturing workforce, small businesses, and military families
• $341 million Defense Production Act request to partner with U.S. companies to boost Defense
Industrial Base and bring critical supply chains back to the U.S. including rare earth elements and
microelectronics
• $617 million of new climate investments will accelerate DoD’s response to this national security
priority that effects nearly every aspect of the Department’s missions, facilities, and operations
• Global Health and medical research investments to fight COVID and prepare for future pandemics

• Build Unity Within the DoD

– Demonstrate teamwork at highest levels of the Department and expect it across every
level

Lead not merely by the example of our power but by the power of our example
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 FY 2022 PB - Military End Strength
FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2021 FY 2022 ∆ FY21 Proj.
Military Component Actual Authorized Projected Request To FY22 Req.
Active Components (AC)
Army 485,383 485,900 486,000 485,000 (1,000)
Navy 346,520 347,800 348,359 346,200 (2,159)
Marine Corps 180,958 181,200 181,204 178,500 (2,704)
Air Force 333,705 327,041 329,051 328,300 (751)
Space Force 85 6,434 6,434 8,400 1,966
Total AC 1,346,651 1,348,375 1,351,048 1,346,400 (4,648)
Reserve Components (RC)
Army Reserve 188,703 189,800 189,800 189,500 (300)
Navy Reserve 59,152 58,800 58,970 58,600 (370)
Marine Corps Reserve 35,501 38,500 36,239 36,800 561
Air Force Reserve 69,056 70,300 70,604 70,300 (304)
Army National Guard 336,129 336,500 336,500 336,000 (500)
Air National Guard 107,414 108,100 108,100 108,300 200
Total RC 795,955 802,000 800,213 799,500 (713)
Army 1,010,215 1,012,200 1,012,300 1,010,500 (1,800)
Navy 405,672 406,600 407,329 404,800 (2,529)
Marine Corps 216,459 219,700 217,443 215,300 (2,143)
Air Force 510,175 505,441 507,755 506,900 (855)
Space Force 85 6,434 6,434 8,400 1,966
Total AC + RC 2,142,606 2,150,375 2,151,261 2,145,900 (5,361)

Resources Matched to Strategy

Flat End Strength Driven by Divestments -- Focus on the Future Fight
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 Major Investments in the FY 2022 Budget
FY 2020 Actual FY 2021 Enacted FY 2022 Request

Qty $B Qty $B Qty $B

Nuclear Deterrence

B-21 Long Range Strike Bomber (Air Force) - $2.9 - $2.8 - $3.0

COLUMBIA Class Ballistic Missile Submarine - $2.3 1 $4.5 $5.0

Long-Range Stand-Off (LRSO) Missile (Air Force) - $0.7 - $0.4 - $0.6

Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) (Air Force) - $0.5 - $1.4 - $2.6

Missile Defeat and Defense Programs

Sea-Based Interceptors (SM-3 IIA and SM-3 IB) 39 $0.7 49 $0.7 48 $0.6

Sea-Based Ballistic Missile Defense System (Aegis BMD) - $1.1 - $1.1 - $1.0

Ground-Based Midcourse (GMD) and Improved Homeland

- $2.2 - $2.3 - $1.7
Defense/Next Generation Interceptors (NGI)

Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Ballistic Missile

39 $0.7 39 $0.9 18 $0.6
Defense Procurement

Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement

156 $0.7 177 $0.7 180 $0.8
(MSE) Procurement
Includes Procurement and Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) funding/quantities Numbers may not add due to rounding

Supports the Nuclear TRIAD and Missile Defense Review priorities

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 Major Investments in the FY 2022 Budget
FY 2020 Actual FY 2021 Enacted FY 2022 Request
Qty $B Qty $B Qty $B
Aircraft
F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy) 96 $12.2 96 $12.9 85 $12.0
KC-46 Pegasus (Air Force) 12 $2.2 15 $2.7 14 $2.5
F/A-18E/F Super Hornet (Navy) 24 $1.9 24 $1.9 - $0.3
AH-64E Apache Attack Helicopter (Army) 49 $1.1 52 $1.2 30 $0.8
VH-92 Presidential Helicopter (Marine Corps) 6 $0.8 5 $0.7 - $0.1
P-8A Poseidon (Navy) 8 $1.6 9 $1.8 - $0.2
CH-53K King Stallion (Marine Corps) 6 $1.6 9 $1.7 9 $1.7
F-15EX (Air Force) 8 $1.1 12 $1.5 12 $1.5
Shipbuilding
COLUMBIA Class Ballistic Missile Submarine - $2.3 1 $4.5 - $5.0
CVN-78 FORD Class Aircraft Carrier 1 $2.5 - $2.9 - $2.9
VIRGINIA Class Submarine 2 $8.8 2 $7.2 2 $6.9
DDG-51 ARLEIGH BURKE Class Destroyers 3 $6.1 2 $3.8 1 $2.4
Frigate (FFG(X)) 1 $1.3 1 $1.1 1 $1.3
Landing Platform Dock Ship (LPD) - $0.6 1 $1.2 - $0.2
Fleet Replenishment Oiler (T-AO) 2 $1.1 - $0.1 1 $0.9
Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) - - 1 $0.3 - -
Unmanned Surface Vessels (USV) (Large) - $0.4 - $0.1 - $0.2
Towing, Salvage, and Rescue Ship (T-ATS) 2 $0.2 2 $0.2 2 $0.2
Ocean Surveillance Ship (T-AGOX(X)) - - - - 1 $0.4
Includes Procurement and Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) funding/quantities Numbers may not add due to rounding
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 Major Investments in the FY 2022 Budget
FY 2020 Actual FY 2021 Enacted FY 2022 Request
Qty $B Qty $B Qty $B

Space
Launch Vehicles - National Security Space Launch (NSSL) and
5 $1.7 3 $1.6 5 $1.7
Rocket System Launch Program (RSLP) (USSF, SDA)
Global Positioning System (GPS) Enterprise (USSF & Navy) 1 $1.7 2 $1.8 2 $1.8

Space Based Overhead Persistent Infrared (OPIR) Systems

$1.7 - $2.5 - $2.6
(USSF)
Ground Systems
Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (Army, Marine Corps, Air Force) 5,230 $1.7 3,959 $1.4 3,799 $1.1
M-1 Abrams Tank Modifications/Upgrades (Army) 171 $2.2 102 $1.4 70 $1.0
Amphibious Combat Vehicle (Marine Corps) 56 $0.4 72 $0.5 92 $0.6
Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (Army) 86 $0.5 - $0.1 - $0.1
Munitions

Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) (Navy, Air Force) 28,022 $1.1 20,071 $0.5 4,890 $0.2

Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) (Army, USMC) 8,190 $1.3 6,524 $1.1 6,471 $1.1

Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) (Navy) 125 $0.7 125 $0.8 125 $0.9

Small Diameter Bomb II (SDB II) (Navy, Air Force) 1,209 $0.4 991 $0.3 1,165 $0.4

Hellfire Missile (Army, Navy, Air Force) 8,469 $0.7 8,130 $0.5 2,098 $0.2

Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) (Air Force) 390 $0.6 400 $0.6 525 $0.8

Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) (Air Force, Navy) 17 $0.2 48 $0.2 48 $0.3
Includes Procurement and Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) funding/quantities Numbers may not add due to rounding
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 FY 2021 and FY 2022 Total Funding
by Appropriation Title
$350.0

$300.0 $290.4
$283.4

$250.0

$200.0

$162.3 $167.3
$141.7
$150.0
$133.6
$106.4 $112.0
$100.0

$50.0

$9.9 $11.7
$0.0
Military Personnel O&M Procurement RDT&E Military Construction &
Family Housing, Other
FY 2021 Enacted FY 2022 Request
Numbers may not add due to rounding

FY 2022 Request: $715 billion

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 For More Information
• Visit the website for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense
(Comptroller) at
– https://www.defense.gov/cj
– Download the Department of Defense’s FY 2022 Budget Request

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