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This course covers the concepts, actors, processes, trends, and research practices central to understanding the U.S. defense budget. The course emphasizes building the analytical and professional skills needed to conceptualize, conduct, and communicate independent assessments of the U.S. defense budget. Although the course focuses on defense budgeting in the U.S. government, the skills developed in the course will prove useful in other contexts, including defense budgeting in other countries, managing technical aspects of defense policy, and working with the aerospace and defense industry.