1970

Expenditures for DOD military functions decreased from 9.3 percent of the gross national product in fiscal 1968 to 8.6 percent in fiscal 1969, and are estimated to decrease to 7.0 percent in fiscal year 1971.

ECONOMY IN GOVERNMENT-1909

1/Bureau of the Budget "National Defense Programs" include Department of Defense military functions, military assistance, atomic energy activities, stockpiling of strategic and critical materials, defense production expansion, Selective Service System, and emergency preparedness activities.

2/ Amounts are adjusted for comparability with current coverage of military functions.

3/ For explanation of conceptual differences between "Administrative Eudget" and "Unified
Budget", see Special Analysis A, page 464 of the Budget of the United States Government, 1969.
Source: OASD(Comptroller)

Table 3, when compared to Table 4, reflects a decrease of 74,999
military personnel and an increase of 15,888 civilian employees between
June 30, 1968, and June 30, 1969. The increase in civilian employment
is due to a change in reporting approximately 40,000 National Guard
technicians who were classified as Federal employees on January 1, 1969.
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Table 5, when compared to Table 6 reflects an increase of $735
million in military pay costs and $1, 143 million in civilian employee
These increases are
pay costs between fiscal years 1968 and 1969.
attributable almost entirely to increased rates of pay approved by the
Congress.