To provide information about its plans beyond the coming year, the Department of Defense (DoD) gener-ally develops a five-year plan, called the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP), that is associated with the budget it submits to the Congress. Because decisions made in the near term can have consequences for the defense budget in the longer term, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) regularly examines DoD's FYDP and projects its budgetary impact...