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Highlights from the President's FY15 Department of Defense Budget Request
Enacted FY14 funding is used for comparisons unless otherwise noted.
The FY15 budget request for the Department of Defense (DOD) would provide $495.6 billion (0.1 percent decrease) in discretionary base funding. DOD is proposing a strategic rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region as the war in Afghanistan nears an end, while also maintaining a military presence and engagement with allies and partners in the greater Middle East. The budget supports this adjustment and makes strategic investments in areas identified as priorities, such as increasing security challenges and opportunities in cyberspace, continuing to invest in R&D to feed innovation in both the military and civilian sectors, and combating terrorism.
The FY15 budget request of $5.1 billion continues to fully support defensive and offensive cyberspace operations capabilities to develop the Cyber Mission Forces initiated in FY13. DOD Space Investment Programs would be funded at $7.2 billion.
DOD Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) would receive a total $63.5 billion (0.7 percent increase) in FY15. This includes $11.5 billion for Science and Technology (4.2 percent decrease), which is comprised of Basic Research, Applied Research and Advanced Technology Development. DOD Basic Research would receive $2 billion (6.9 percent decrease), Applied Research $4.5 billion (4 percent decrease) and Advanced Technology Development $5 billion (3.1 percent decrease).
FY15 budget request for DOD RDT&E by military branch (in millions of dollars, change from FY14 enacted)
|
|
Army |
Navy |
Air Force |
Defense-Wide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic Research | 424 (-2.8%) |
576 (-6.9%) |
455 (-13.4%) |
562 (-4.0%) |
| Applied Research | 863 (-9.6%) |
821 (-4.5%) |
1,081 (-5.7%) |
1,692 (+0.7%) |
| Advanced Technology Development |
918 (-13.7%) |
595 (-4.6%) |
594 (-6.7%) |
2,933 (+1.95%) |
| Advanced Component Development and Prototypes |
323 (-22.1%) |
4,592 (+6.3%) |
1,372 (+62.7%) |
6,047 (-0.1%) |
| System Development and Demonstration |
1,719 (-16.5%) |
5,419 (+27.5%) |
3,337 (-26.1%) |
611 (-12.3%) |
| Management Support | 1,000 (-14.0%) |
977 (+13.4%) |
1,183 (+6.2%) |
888 (-3.9%) |
| Operational System Development |
1,346 (+29%) |
3,286 (-4.6%) |
15,718 (+6.2%) |
4,032 (-7.0%) |
| Total | 6,594 (-7.6%) |
16,266 (+8.6%) |
23,740 (+0.7%) |
16,766 (-2.3%) |
A total of $26.4 billion is included for DOD under the FY15 Opportunity, Growth and Security Initiative, of which $335 million is slated for Science and Technology.
Funding levels for select DOD research agencies in the FY15 budget include:
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — $2.9 billion (4.9 percent increase) DARPA plans to invest approximately $80 million in the BRAIN Initiative, a National Institutes of Health priority aimed at better understanding the human brain.
- Chemical and Biological Defense Programs — $1.1 billion (4 percent decrease)
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency — $480.1 million (1.8 percent decrease)
- Defense Information Systems Agency — $216.1 million (2.7 percent decrease)
- Defense Logistics Agency — $233.5 million (9.2 percent decrease)