Classified military spending has reached its highest level since 1988

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May 20, 2006, 2:34AM
Pentagon increasingly in the 'black'
Spending on classified projects at highest level in years, experts say


By DREW BROWN
Knight Ridder Tribune News

WASHINGTON - Classified military spending has reached its highest level since 1988, near the end of the Cold War, a new independent analysis has found.

Classified, or "black," programs now appear to account for about $30.1 billion, or 19 percent, of the acquisition money the Defense Department is requesting for fiscal year 2007, said Steven M. Kosiak, a defense analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments in Washington, an independent policy-research organization.

The figure is more than double the amount the Pentagon requested in 1995, when classified military acquisition spending reached a post-Cold War low. It apparently reflects an increase in intelligence funding and a surge in new weapons research and procurement since the Sept. 11 attacks.

"In terms of where the money is actually going, it's quite speculative. But clearly a lot of space programs, new satellites are funded through this, and other surveillance systems such as UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), things like that," Kosiak said.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3876153.html

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