Classified programmes.

Classified programmes appear, to account For around $31.9 billion, or 18% of the acquisition funding included in the DoD's FY2008 budget request, according to analysis by Steven Kosiak of the Washington-based Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. His total includes $14.4bn in procurement funding (14% of the total) and $17.5Bn in R&D funding (23%). Though in real terms the total is slightly down from FY2007 (-1%.) and FY2006 (-3%), Kosiak believes that this is primarily a reflection of the fact that the earlier-year totals included war-related funding, while the FY2008 figure does not. In the longer term, he believes that classified acquisition funding has more than doubled in real terms since it hit a post-Cold War low in FY1995. Since FY1995, funding for "black" programmes is estimated to have increased by 112% in real terms--a substantially higher rate than funding for acquisition programmes overall, which has grown by around 77%.