The FY2008 National Security Program

The President’s FY2008 budget request is one of the most complex in recent years, marking a major transition from a request that largely ignored wartime costs, and focused solely on baseline expenditures, to one with a far more detailed breakout of projected expenditures.

This briefing is not a critique or an attempt at original analysis. It rather brings together the summary data provided by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, OMB, and the White House to summarize the overall trends in the President’s request.

It also contains summary data on the overall war on terror request affecting non-defense departments and agencies, on all requested homeland defense expenditures, and on related State Department aid activities.