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Exhibit 247

Funding for Overseas Contingency Operations and Its Impact on Defense Spending

Exhibit 247 ยท Agency report

Funding for Overseas Contingency Operations and Its Impact on Defense Spending

CBO estimates that in each year since 2006, more than $50 billion, on average, of the total funding designated for OCO has been used to support enduring activities rather than the temporary costs of overseas operations.

Nonbase funding since 2001 totaled about $2.2 trillion, about 20 percent of DoD appropriations, 98 percent of it OCO. Of $86 billion appropriated for OCO in 2017, 22 percent was used for base-budget needs.

Source
Congressional Budget Office
Date
October 2018
Quoted from
Summary, p. 1
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/54219
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding DEF-5.3
Primary record CBO estimated that in each year since 2006 more than $50 billion, on average, of funding designated for Overseas Contingency Operations supported enduring activities, and GAO found that the share DoD itself considers non-war rose from about 4 percent in fiscal year 2010 to 12 percent in fiscal year 2015.