WASHINGTON — The Defense Department’s unfunded priority lists have hit Capitol Hill, but in a departure from precedent, two of the military services and several combatant commands said they have no unfunded requirements due to the size of the $1.5 trillion defense budget request for fiscal 2027.
According to UPL submissions obtained by Breaking Defense, the Army, Navy and Air Force included about $3 billion in unfunded requests, all for military construction projects. US Southern Command included $229.9 million in its wish list, up from its $60 million request in FY26.
All told, those figures are paltry compared to the batch of unfunded requests for FY26, which totaled around $50 billion and included big ticket items like F-35s and development funds for the Navy’s…
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