The American Enterprise Institute, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and War on the Rocks formed a partnership to address a shared concern: lack of understanding about how defense strategy and security objectives are translated into concrete budget choices. To meet this challenge, the three organizations built the Defense Futures Simulator.

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Integrating detailed budget data, decades of subject-matter expertise, and sophisticated data science, the Defense Futures Simulator serves as a publicly available resource for those who wish to understand what the United States is spending to achieve its defense objectives and how that might change in the future.