Budget Lab

Fiscal-year comparisons, budget-book extraction, and formulation analytics.

The first pass reads structured DoD JSON and inventories the PDF/XLSX corpus so later extraction can move into normalized Neon budget tables.

31.4K
Budget lines parsed

Excel exhibit rows are normalized by account, activity, fiscal year, and scenario.

$2.0T
FY2026 total

Total/request/enacted/spend-plan columns are treated as dollars in thousands.

$2.7T
FY2027 total/request

14 spreadsheets are read directly from the local folder.

$211.1B
Largest variance

Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide

Budget document and time slice

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Budget document and time slice: Account

Budget Formulation And Execution Research

OMB A-11, DoD budget exhibits, and DoD FMR budget execution mapped to working instructions.

The Budget Lab should operate as a research-backed workbench for DoD request analysis, account variance, exhibit interpretation, budget-book review, and execution-risk monitoring.

Research-backed

Core document breakdown

OMB A-11 is the primary governmentwide budget instruction; DoD budget materials provide the DoD-specific request books and exhibits; DoD FMR turns enacted resources into execution controls.

  • OMB A-11 Part 1: general budget submission requirements, schedule, transmittals, and responsibilities.
  • OMB A-11 Part 2: budget formulation and presentation, including MAX schedules, account structure, object classification, baseline, and supporting materials.
  • OMB A-11 Part 3: selected budget actions, supplementals, rescissions, deferrals, and special analyses.
  • OMB A-11 Part 4: budget execution, apportionments, reapportionments, deferrals, reporting, and control of obligations.
  • OMB A-11 Part 5: federal credit, financing accounts, liquidating accounts, cohorts, subsidy cost, and credit reestimates.
  • OMB A-11 Part 6: federal performance framework connecting budget resources to goals, indicators, strategic objectives, and annual performance plans.
  • OMB A-11 Part 7: capital programming and planning, including acquisition, IT, business case, and major capital asset discipline.
  • DoD Budget Materials: overview books, M-1, O-1, RF-1, P-1, P-1R, R-1, C-1, Pacific Deterrence Initiative, and JSON/Excel exhibits.
  • DoD FMR Volume 2A/2B/2C: budget formulation and presentation for appropriations, budget activities, military personnel, O&M, procurement, RDT&E, construction, revolving funds, and supporting exhibits.
  • DoD FMR Volume 3: budget execution, obligation controls, apportionment/allotment mechanics, expired/cancelled accounts, adjustments, and ADA-sensitive areas.

Budget analyst work instruction

Use this workflow when reviewing a DoD budget file, budget exhibit, or request variance.

  • Step 1: Identify appropriation family, account title, budget activity, program element or line item, fiscal year, and scenario.
  • Step 2: Map each line to OMB A-11 budget concepts: account, object class, budget authority, obligations, outlays, baseline, and performance linkage.
  • Step 3: Compare FY2026 to FY2027 values and separate program growth, inflation, transfer, reclassification, new start, termination, and execution carryover.
  • Step 4: Tie large variances to DoD exhibit evidence: M-1 for military personnel, O-1/OP exhibits for O&M, P-1 for procurement, R-1/R-2 for RDT&E, C-1 for construction.
  • Step 5: Flag execution risks: obligation phasing, expired-year usage, reprogramming dependency, negative adjustments, ADA risk, and missing spend-plan justification.
  • Step 6: Create a narrative output with source path, exhibit, line, fiscal years compared, dollar delta, percent delta, policy basis, and recommended analyst action.

DoD FMR volume map for budget pages

Use these volumes as the first content taxonomy for DoD prototype expansion.

  • Volume 1: general financial management information, definitions, roles, responsibilities, and foundational policy.
  • Volume 2A/2B/2C: budget formulation and presentation, appropriation-specific exhibits, and justification book structure.
  • Volume 3: budget execution, including apportionment, allotment, commitments, obligations, expired accounts, and ADA control.
  • Volume 4: accounting policy and USSGL-oriented treatment of assets, liabilities, budgetary accounting, and proprietary accounting.
  • Volume 6A/6B: financial reporting policy, external reports, audited financial statement form and content.
  • Volume 14: Antideficiency Act policy, investigation, reporting, and prevention controls.
  • Volume 15: security assistance policy for foreign military sales and related trust/accounting treatment.
  • Volume 16: DoD debt management, collections, receivables, and write-off policy.
OMB Circular A-11Preparation, submission, and execution of the budget.DoD Budget MaterialsFY budget request overview, justification books, and exhibit files.DoD FMR 7000.14-RDoD financial management regulation by volume and chapter.Treasury USSGLUniform chart of accounts and accounting scenarios.

Budget amount by FY/scenario

AccountFY2026FY2027DeltaChange
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide$101.4B$312.5B$211.1B208%
Private Sector Care Program$0.0$44.4B$44.4B0%
Defense Health Program$43.5B$0.0-$43.5B-100%
Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy$118.1B$157.4B$39.3B33%
Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide$123.0B$160.5B$37.5B30%
Procurement, Defense-Wide$24.9B$60.1B$35.2B141%
National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund$2.0B$36.0B$34.0B1690%
Missile Procurement, Army$17.2B$50.3B$33.1B192%
Aircraft Procurement, Navy$37.5B$69.6B$32.2B86%
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force$49.3B$81.3B$32.0B65%
Defense Production Act Purchases$1.6B$30.9B$29.3B1847%
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force$119.2B$148.3B$29.1B24%
Operation and Maintenance, Air Force$132.5B$159.6B$27.2B21%
Operation and Maintenance, Army$121.5B$147.2B$25.6B21%
Procurement, Space Force$8.1B$29.0B$21.0B260%

Largest Program Lines

31,425 parsed observations
ProgramAccountFYScenarioAmountSource
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideResearch, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide2027Total$54.6Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2027/FY2027_r1_display.xlsx
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideResearch, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide2027Mandatory Request$53.6Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2027/FY2027_r1_display.xlsx
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideResearch, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide2027Total$41.8Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2027/FY2027_r1_display.xlsx
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideResearch, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide2027Mandatory Request$40.6Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2027/FY2027_r1_display.xlsx
Procurement, Defense-WideProcurement, Defense-Wide2027Total$30.7Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2027/FY2027_p1_display.xlsx
Procurement, Defense-WideProcurement, Defense-Wide2027Mandatory$30.5Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2027/FY2027_p1_display.xlsx
Defense Production Act PurchasesDefense Production Act Purchases2027Total$30.4Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2027/FY2027_p1_display.xlsx
Defense Production Act PurchasesDefense Production Act Purchases2027Mandatory$30.0Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2027/FY2027_p1_display.xlsx
Other Procurement, Air ForceOther Procurement, Air Force2024Actuals$29.4Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2026/FY2026_p1_display.xlsx
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceResearch, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force2027Discretionary Request$29.1Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2027/FY2027_r1_display.xlsx
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceResearch, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force2027Total$29.1Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2027/FY2027_r1_display.xlsx
Other Procurement, Air ForceOther Procurement, Air Force2026Discretionary Enacted$28.0Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2027/FY2027_p1_display.xlsx
Other Procurement, Air ForceOther Procurement, Air Force2026Total$28.0Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2027/FY2027_p1_display.xlsx
Other Procurement, Air ForceOther Procurement, Air Force2027Discretionary Request$27.2Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2027/FY2027_p1_display.xlsx
Other Procurement, Air ForceOther Procurement, Air Force2027Total$27.2Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2027/FY2027_p1_display.xlsx
Other Procurement, Air ForceOther Procurement, Air Force2026Disc Request$26.9Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2026/FY2026_p1_display.xlsx
Other Procurement, Air ForceOther Procurement, Air Force2026Total$26.9Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2026/FY2026_p1_display.xlsx
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceResearch, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force2026Total$26.2Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2026/FY2026_r1_display.xlsx
Other Procurement, Air ForceOther Procurement, Air Force2025Actuals$26.0Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2027/FY2027_p1_display.xlsx
Other Procurement, Air ForceOther Procurement, Air Force2025Total$26.0Bsourcedata/dod_1/FY2027/FY2027_p1_display.xlsx

Interactive Budget Query

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