DoD Budget Sectors: A Mixed Bag

Defense News: WASHINGTON — The 2016 US defense budget, for the moment, is set. But one would be hard-pressed to find anyone in Washington who believes that the numbers released by the Department of Defense on Feb. 2 will match those the services actually receive once the Sturm und Drang of budget season on Capitol Hill is over.

Overall, Pentagon is asking Congress for $534 billion in base budget money and another $50 billion in supplemental wartime cash for a total request of $585 billion. If that number holds it would shoot well past the congressionally mandated budget cap of $499 billion for 2016, as the Obama administration has long pledged to do.

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