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The United States spent $686 billion on national defense during fiscal year (FY) 2019 according to the Office of Management and Budget, which amounts to 15 percent of the federal budget.

Estimated U.S. military spending is $934 billion. It covers the period October 1, 2020, through September 30, 2021. 1 Military spending is the second-largest item in the federal budget after Social Security. This figure is more than the $705 billion outlined by the Department of Defense alone2 .

Dr. Mark T. Esper became Secretary of Defense on July 23, 2019. He previously served as the 23rd Secretary of the Army. Dr. Esper graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1986, and has two advanced degrees from Harvard University and George Washington University.

The Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) is the principal staff assistant and adviser to both the Secretary of Defense and the Deputy Secretary of Defense for all budgetary and fiscal matters, including the development and execution of the Defense Department's annual budget.

Mr. Esper, 56, a former secretary of the Army and a former Raytheon executive, became defense secretary in July 2019, after Mr.

Nearly two-thirds of DoD's total budget request for 2021 $454 billion was for O&S: $163 billion for military personnel and $290 billion for O&M. ... (O&S costs in CBO's analysis are expressed in terms of the total budget, including both base-budget funding and funding designated for OCO.)

The FY 2021 defense budget is composed of two parts: a base budget of $671 billion and a warfighting, or Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO), budget of an additional $69 billion. This compares to a base budget of $665 billion and an OCO budget of $73 billion in FY 2020.

In 2019, the Pentagon spent $370 billion on contracting more than half the total defense budget of $676 billion and a whopping 164% higher than its spending on contractors in 2001, Heidi Peltier writes. Why should taxpayers care?

The NAA passed the House by a vote of 377 48 and the Senate by a vote of 86 8 and became effective on December 20, 2019 when it was signed into law by President Donald Trump. The Act authorised a $738 billion allocation to the United States military.