Pentagon breaks down $842 billion Defense Department budget request

President Joe Biden unveiled his fiscal 2024 funds, which incorporates $842 billion for the Division of Protection and one other roughly $44 billion for non-Pentagon protection spending, totaling roughly $886 billion, with Pentagon officers breaking down the small print on Monday.

The request for Pentagon spending is a $26 billion improve from the $816 billion that was enacted within the 2023 funds, whereas this most up-to-date request is barely lower than $100 billion greater than the enacted 2022 protection funds.

BIDEN UNVEILS $842 BILLION DEFENSE BUDGET REQUEST FOR NEXT YEAR

The funds features a report funding of $145 billion in analysis, growth, check, and analysis and one other $170 billion for procurement, which can be the biggest in historical past. It additionally contains $61.1 billion for air energy to proceed growing, modernizing, and procuring deadly air forces; $37.7 billion for nuclear enterprise modernization; $29.8 billion for missile protection; $13.9 billion for land energy supporting modernization of Military and Marine Corps fight gear; $11 billion for hypersonic weapons and different long-range missiles; $13.5 billion for cyber actions; and $1.4 billion joint all-domain command-and-control initiatives.

The funds additionally contains $9.1 billion in help of the division’s Pacific Deterrence Initiative, a 40% improve from the earlier yr, which aligns with the division’s perception, as outlined within the Nationwide Protection Technique, that China is the army’s “pacing challenge” that has the power and want to vary the worldwide world order.

“To sustain our military advantage over China, it makes major investments in integrated air and missile defenses and operational energy efficiency, as well as in our air dominance, our maritime dominance, and in munitions, including hypersonics,” Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin mentioned in a press release. “This budget includes the largest ever request for the Pacific Deterrence Initiative, which we are using to invest in advanced capabilities, new operational concepts, and more resilient force posture in the Indo-Pacific region. It also enables groundbreaking posture initiatives in Guam, Mariana Islands, the Philippines, Japan, and Australia.”

Final month, the US secured entry to 4 extra army bases within the Philippines, permitting for added help for its all