FY22 Defense budget breakdown
Army, Air Force, and Navy-Marine Corps budget and contracting priorities
2022 defense budget breakdown
The Department of Defense’s discretionary budget authority for fiscal year 2022 is $722 billion – an increase of $17 billion from FY21. Bloomberg Government forecasts that the contract obligations will come in around $535 billion. The Biden Administration has requested $737 billion for DOD in FY23.
- FY22 Army Budget Request: $173 billion (watch on-demand overview)
- FY22 Navy Budget Request: $212 billion (watch on-demand overview)
- FY22 Air Force Budget Request: $213 billion (watch on-demand overview)
U.S. Defense spending by year
Total defense spending for contractors over the past five years (2018 – 2021):
- 2021 – $408.2 Billion
- 2020 – $448.7 Billion
- 2019 – $404.5 Billion
- 2018 – $373.5 Billion
Caption – U.S. defense spending by year for contractors
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- Aircraft – $72.7 billion
- Construction Related Services – $40.5 billion
- Ships and Submarines – $39.3 billion
- Systems Development – $32 billion
- Guided Missiles – $31.9 billion
- Facility Related Services – $28.6 billion
- Engines, Components & Spt Eq – $27.9 billion
- Technical and Engineering Services (non-IT) – $24.3 billion
- Management Advisory Services – $21.1 billion
- IT Applications – $20.2 billion
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- F-35 JSF production lot 12 – $33.4 billion
- TRICARE East Region (2016-2022) – $26.1 billion
- DLA Direct Delivery Fuels program – $22.6 billion
- SeaPort Enhanced – $20.5 billion
- One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) – $17 billion
- Virginia-Class Submarines (SSN 802) And (SSN 803) – $16.7 billion
- One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) Small Business – $12 billion
- TRICARE West Region (2016-2022) – $11.9 billion
- Vaccine BNT162b2 Production for National Emergency Response to COVID-19 – $11 billion
- P-8A Poseidon Full Rate – $10.5 billion
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