Arms Control and Nonproliferation Highlights of the Bush Administration's FY2009 Budget Request

Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) Program

*FY2009 Request: $40 million for the Department of Energy, in three pots:
-Directed Stockpile Work: $10 million
-Science Campaign account: $20 million
-Engineering Campaign account: $10 million
*FY2008 Request: $88.8 million for the Department of Energy; $30 million for the Department of Defense
*Final FY2008 Action: $0 for the Department of Energy; $15 million for the Department of Defense


Advanced Fuel Cycle Initiative (the technology development element of the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP))

*FY2009 Request: $301.5 million
*FY2008 Request: $405 million
*Final FY2008 Action: $179 million (as part of Department of Energy Appropriations)

Notable Nonproliferation Programs

Cooperative Threat Reduction (Nunn-Lugar Program)
*FY 2009 Request: $414.1 million
*FY 2008 Request: $348 million
*Final FY2008 Action: $428 million (as part of Department of Defense appropriations)

Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI)
*FY 2009 Request: $219.6 million
*FY 2008 Request: $119.6 million
*Final FY2008 Action: $193.2 million (as part of Department of Energy appropriations)

International Nuclear Material Protection & Cooperation
*FY 2009 Request: $429.6 million
*FY 2008 Request: $371.7 million
*Final FY2008 Action: $624.5 million (as part of Department of Energy appropriations)


Space Test Bed (i.e. space-based missile defense)

*FY 2009 Request: $10 million
*FY 2008 Request: $10 million
*Final FY 2008 Action: $0

Conventional Trident Modification Program (to equip Trident II submarine-launched long-range missiles with non-nuclear warheads)

*FY 2009 Request: No longer a unique program – merged into Prompt Global Strike technology development program which requested $119 million (i.e. development of Trident-related technologies is set to continue)
*FY 2008 Request: $175 million
*Final FY 2008 Action: $0 ($100 million was appropriated solely for alternatives to the Conventional Trident Modification Program)

Missile Defense Programs

Total
*FY 2009 Request: $12.3 billion
*FY 2008 Request: $10.4 billion (as included in the scope of the FY 2008 Defense Authorization Bill (H.R. 1585/S. 1547))
*Final FY 2008 Action: $10.1 billion (as included in the scope of the FY 2008 Defense Authorization Bill (H.R. 1585/S. 1547))

European Ground-Based Defense (GMD) Element
*FY 2009 Request: $720 million
*FY 2008 Request: $310 million
*Final FY 2008 Action: $225 million

So-Called Programs to Promote Democracy in Iran (i.e. regime change slush fund)

*FY 2009 Request: $65 million
*FY 2008 Request: $108.71 million
*Final FY 2008 Action: $60 million (as part of Foreign Operations Appropriations)


Department of Defense (DoD)

Note: “National Defense” (also known as Function 050) includes the regular operations of the Department of Defense, the nuclear weapons and other defense-related programs of the Department of Energy, and the defense-related activities of other agencies, but excludes the cost of ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. The “base” budget (also known as Function 051) includes the regular operations of the Department of Defense only. “Supplemental War Funding” includes the cost of ongoing military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

National Defense (050)
*FY 2009 Request: $541 billion
*FY 2008 Request: $507 billion (as included in the scope of FY2008 Defense Authorization Bill (H.R. 1585/S. 1547))
*Final FY 2008 Action: $506.9 billion (as included in the scope of FY2008 Defense Authorization Bill (H.R. 1585/S. 1547))

Base budget (051)
*FY 2009 Request: $515.4 billion
*FY 2008 Request: $452.2 billion (as included in the scope of FY 2008 Defense Appropriations Bill, H.R. 3222)
*Final FY 2008 Action: $448.7 billion (as included in the scope of FY 2008 Defense Appropriations Bill, H.R. 3222)

Supplemental War Funding
*FY 2009 Placeholder Request: $70 billion (an additional $102.9 billion from FY 2008
remains to be enacted)
*FY 2008 Request: $189.7 billion in Supplemental Appropriations requests
*FY 2008 Action To Date: $87 billion (including $70 billion for general military operations
and nearly $17 billion for Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles)