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This paper considers the budgetary aspects of US government plans to expand military activities in outer space. It documents the allocation of funds in the US Fiscal Year 2004 budget request to three areas: force projection and space control ("Enhancing Space Operations"), space-based elements of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) System, and space-based command, control and intelligence ("Integrated Focused Surveillance"). The author notes that other states have pointed to these three areas as drivers of US weaponization of space.