据1985年《IFOG Handbook and Buyers Guide》报导,美国政府作出了1983—1986年用于军事和政府有关部门的光纤通信研制和工程开发费用的预算(见附表),由美国政府直接拨款9亿美元。这笔费用一半用于改善美国海陆空三军的通信装备及其它国防项目,以组建170个军用光纤系统,另一半费用用于政府有关部门的光纤通信研究。另据《Photonics According to the 1985 “IFOG Handbook and Buyers Guide”, the U.S. government made a budget for the development of optical fiber communication and engineering development costs for military and government departments from 1983 to 1986 (see attached table). The U.S. government allocates 900 million directly. Dollars. Half of this cost was used to improve the communications equipment and other defense projects of the US Army, Air Force, and Air Forces to build 170 military fiber optic systems. The other half was spent on optical fiber communications research by government agencies. According to "Photonics