On the surface, Special Operations Command is holding its own in a time of fiscal austerity.
As far as what is requested at the beginning of the budget cycle and what is eventually enacted, it normally receives what it asks for along with a little bit more.
The 2016 presidential budget request is almost $8 billion, plus overseas contingency operations funds to defray the cost of Middle East deployments.
In 2015, it received $7.6 billion plus $2.3 billion in OCO funding.
Special Operations Command has strong support in the administration and among lawmakers, a senior Defense Department official said.