Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is a nonpartisan legislative-branch agency that provides Congress with budgetary and economic analysis.
UAP Relevance
A July 9, 2026 CBO report estimated that protecting 100 of the Pentagon’s most important installations with a multilayered counter-drone defense could cost up to **500 million/year to maintain. The report found the C-UAS industrial base sufficient, citing 135 vendor responses to a DoD demonstration RFI.