2016 DOD budget for
communications, electronics,
and intelligence headed up
after two flat years
February 5, 2015
WASHINGTON, 5 Feb. 2015. U.S. military electronics spending
appears to be headed back up next after two years of modest funding
levels. The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is asking Congress
for $11 billion in fiscal 2016 for procurement and research in military
communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence
(CET&I) technologies.
The Pentagon's 2016 CET&I request is up 13.4 percent from the
$9.7 billion that Congress allocated for these accounts for this year.
The Pentagon released its 2016 DOD budget request this week.
The $11 billion request for communications, electronics,
telecommunications, and intelligence equipment and research is the
highest in at least two years. These accounts contained $15.1 billion as
recently as fiscal 2012.
The DOD request for CET&I procurement and research does not
include military activities with substantial electronics content, such as
aircraft avionics, vetronics, and missile guidance; when these are
added, DOD spending levels for military electronics and defense
electro-optics next year could approach $90 billion, industry
analysts believe.
The DOD's CET&* budget request for fiscal 2016, which begins next
October, includes $7.9 billion for procurement, which is up nearly 18
percent from this year's congressional enacted level of %6.7 billion.
The proposed budget also requests $3.1 billion for CET&I research,
development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E), which is up 3.5 percent
from this year's enacted level of $2.97 billion.
Highlights of the Army's CET&I 2016 budget request include
$783.1 million for the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical
(WIN-T); $118.1 million for the Defense enterprise Wideband
Satellite Communications Systems; $103 million for the Installation
Information Infrastructure Modernization program; and
$314.4 million for the Distributed Common Ground System -
Army (DCGS-A).
Highlights of the Navy's CET&I request include $103.2 million for the
AN/SQQ-89 surface anti-submarine warfare combat system;
$214.8 million for attack submarine acoustics; $146.97 for the Fixed
Surveillance System wide-area sonar; $148.2 million for shipboard
information warfare exploitation; $279 million for the Consolidated
Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) program;
and $118.1 million for the Navy Multiband Terminal (NMT).
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