CSBA in the News

Five-and-a-half months after the start of the fiscal year, Congress has yet to pass a 2011 defense budget. Instead, lawmakers have passed a continuing resolution (CR), which forces DoD to operate at 2010 spending levels /…/ Discussing the impact of continuing resolution “It makes it particularly challenging then to try to plan an [2013] budget with so much uncertainty going on,” said Todd Harrison, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

“There are all sorts of ripple effects on the programs,” said Todd Harrison, an analyst with CSBA.

Airtime: Mon. Mar. 7 2011 | 2:12 PM ET

The Defense Department is pressuring Congress for a spending increase in 2011. Defense leaders say a continuing resolution the House passed in mid-February doesn’t give them enough money. And they want DoD taken out of any year-long CR that Congress passes.

“With a lot of these efficiency initiatives, these are projected savings, this is what they’re estimating they’re going to save in the future. What quite often happens is that the savings don’t materialize like we expected,” said Todd Harrison, a longtime defense budget watcher at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.