Todd Harrison is a Senior Fellow for Budget Studies at the Center of Strategic and Budgetary Assessments which has just released it's analysis titled "The FY 2012 Defense Budget: What to Expect in an Age of Austerity".
Harrison told Federal News Radio that since Defense Secretary Robert Gates has already proposed multibillion-dollar cuts in military spending, there shouldn't be too many surprises.
"We know where they're going to be taking some money from programs, but interestingly we also know where they're going to be investing in new programs," said Harrison.
Two of the "big ones," as he called them, are the new long range penetrating bomber, already budgeted for $1.7 billion dollars over the five year plan in last year's budget. Harrison said to expect "probably adding another one or two billion dollars to that plan to speed it up and make it into a real program."