Pentagon will submit record budget request, official says
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Pentagon will submit record budget request, official says
Posted: 11:11 AM ET
From Mike Mount
CNN Senior Pentagon Producer
WASHINGTON (CNN) - As President-elect Obama plans for his first budget
early next year, the Pentagon is asking for a record amount, according to a
senior Pentagon official.The official said the Pentagon’s baseline request being sent to the White
House will be $524 billion for fiscal 2010, $9 billion more than last year’s
$515 billion baseline request.

The source was not authorized to speak on the record.

The supplemental request, the additional amount asked for by the Pentagon
to keep the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan going through the end of fiscal 2009
is $57 billion, according to the official, bringing the total Pentagon budget
request to $581 billion.

Last year’s Defense Department supplemental request was $70 billion,
bringing the total budget request to $585 billion.

While the baseline request is a record, added to the supplemental
requests, the total the Pentagon is going to ask for next year is $4 billion
less than last year.