Message posted by Jim on June 16, 2000 at 08:05:25 EST:

This comes from JED 06/00:
The Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) has published an assessment of the classified,or "black" budget for FY01. Based on an
analysis by Elizabeth Heeter, roughly $16 billion, or 16 percent of the funding requested by the Pentagon was for classified programs. This split almost evenly between procurement and RDT&E and was up slightly
from the FY00 request of $15.4 million, but significantly lower than the FY87 peak of $21 billion.

As usual, the Air Force request was largest at $7.1 billion, or 34 percent of the total. This is because the service's acquisition budget contributes to a number of intelligence agencies, including the Central
Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office. The Air Force is also responsible for most C4I functions and related assets.

Navy classified procurement was $200 million,followed by the Defense Agencies at $700 million. The Army requested no black procurement funds.
In classified research and development (R&D), the Air Force comes in at $13.7 billion, the Navy at $1.3 billion and the Army $200 million.
The Defense Agencies requested roughly $1.4 billion in this area.

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