Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division use a prototype of the Integrated Visual Augmentation System during a trench-clearing exercise in October 2020 at Fort Pickett, Va. (Bridgett Siter/U.S. Army)
Defense News: US Army’s FY22 budget backs modernization, cuts ‘down into bone’ of legacy fleet
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is taking a hit in the president’s fiscal 2022 defense budget request compared to the other military services, but the land force continues to staunchly guard its ongoing modernization efforts intended to provide overmatch against adversaries like China and Russia by 2035, according to documents released May 28.
The Army’s budget request of $173 billion for FY22 represents a $5 billion reduction compared to last year’s request of $178 billion.
Congress enacted $176.6 billion in FY21. Different this year is the lack of wartime funding — also known as the overseas contingency operations account — that, for the first time since it was created, is rolled into the base budget.
The OCO account is now referred to as direct and enduring contingency costs. That was reduced by $5 billion from FY21, Army comptroller Lt. Gen. Thomas Horlander told a small group of reporters.
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