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WASHINGTON \u2014 The Department of Defense is preparing to submit a $585 billion fiscal 2016 funding request to Congress on Feb. 2, according to a source with knowledge of the budgetary documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The request includes $534 billion in base budget funding along with a $51 billion overseas contingency operations (OCO), the source said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The request would shoot past the congressionally –<\/span>mandated budget cap of $499 billion for 2016, as the Obama administration has long pledged to do. The request would lay the groundwork for a contentious debate with Congress over spending priorities, and guarantees another several rounds of tense hearings with the service chiefs and defense secretary on Capitol Hill next month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The budget has grown from the fiscal 2015 request, which was $554 billion when it was passed in December. That budget included $490 billion in base discretionary spending and $64 billion in OCO funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the forthcoming request, the Air Force is asking for $152.9 billion,<\/span> ($16 billion over the enacted amount for 2015), while the Navy Department is looking at a $161 billion request ($11.8 billion over 2015) and the Army’s request is $126.5 billion, or about $7 billion more than last year, according to briefing slides from the Pentagon’s comptroller office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to the $51 billion supplemental wartime request, $42 billion of that will go toward the advising mission in Afghanistan \u2014 which has leveled off at 10,900 US troops \u2014 with $7.8 billion earmarked for the reset and retrograde of equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The request will ask for $5.3 billion to continue to fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria \u2014 similar to the $5.6 billion request made for 2015 \u2014 while adding $789 million to the previously requested $1 billion for the European Reassurance Initiative that Pp<\/span>resident Obama rolled out in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The higher-than-expected OCO request will most likely run into resistance in Congress, which has begun to bristle in recent years over the large requests even as US troops<\/span> numbers in Iraq and Afghanistan have plummeted, and the insistence of the Obama administration to move more and <\/span>more activities that have traditionally found a home in the base budget into the supplemental fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email: pmcleary@defensenews.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twitter: @paulmcleary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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