President Obama’s fiscal 2016 budget to be released Monday is expected to propose $35 billion more in defense funding than the current spending caps would allow, as well as a reduction of 3,500 civilian positions, according to a think tank analyst and news reports.
The White House is unveiling a funding plan for the Pentagon that kicks off another round of fiscal battles that have become a hallmark of President Obama’s administration.
There may be rough seas ahead for the Navy’s ballistic missile defense force.
The Pentagon is inflating its expected costs for the advisory mission in Afghanistan next year, according to a defense expert.
A senior budget analyst said the Navy should ask for a plus-up of its shipbuilding account to fund the Ohio Replacement ballistic-missile submarine rather than using a separate account outside of its budget.
Next Monday the President is scheduled to submit his fiscal year 2016 budget request to Congress, an annual process that marks the official beginning of the budget season. While we don’t have the details of what will be included in this year’s defense budget yet, the broad outlines are well known. The Defense Department’s base budget for FY 2016 is expected to total $534 billion (not including war funding), which is a six percent real increase from the level appropriated in FY 2015. The administration is also expected to request an additional $51 billion in war funding, for a total of some $585 billion in DoD funding.
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