RDT&E budgets have increased in the recent past due to delays in moving major programs into production; this trend will continue but associated funding growth will slow considerably in the near-term

• Congress has commenced efforts to gain more oversight into RDT&E program
  schedule and cost over-runs
• Programs that show excessive cost growth or fail to meet technical milestones
  will be increasingly threatened by cancellation
• Army and Navy RDT&E funding will decrease significantly over near and
  long-term, as large platform programs transition to procurement and funds
  are sent to that account to complete the acquisition
• Early stage development for programs will face increasing funding pressure
  in the long-term, as final development of large platforms consumes a
  greater share of the RDT&E budget, particularly in the Army and Navy
• Supplemental and baseline spending have grown extremely large and
  become intermixed during the last 4 years. Separating what will continue as
  baseline will require some fiscal control by the DoD