Budget

The potential physical threat to the country is not increased due to a government shutdown, regardless of the cause.

President Trump released his budget request for fiscal 2019, marking the first step in a months-long process.

The budget request for Fiscal 2019 contains $18 million in funding to buy the very first 8 OTH missiles for the LCS.

The increase would be the largest in almost a decade.

The service asked for about $11.7 billion in funding for 2019, an increase of $979 million over its previous request.

The plan would reach established goals for each ship class in that timeframe except for carriers.

The next military budget will stress lethality over the size of the force.

The Air Force will not move forward with an E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System replacement aircraft.

The Army's proposed 2019 budget would add 4K soldiers to the active force and purchase large quantities of missiles.

A new budget request features an increase in big guns and artillery rockets as well as a plus-up of some 1,100 Marines.