CBO projects that DoD’s plans will cost 3.5 percent more to execute through 2018 than DoD estimates. Moreover, the costs of DoD’s plans for 2014 through 2021 would greatly exceed the limits established by the Budget Control Act.
CBO estimates that the costs of DoD’s base-budget plans for 2014 through 2021 would average about $90 billion a year more than the funding that would be provided to DoD under the limits set by the Budget Control Act.