The administration of U.S. President Joseph Biden is asking Congress for $715 billion for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) in federal fiscal year 2022, which would be a modest increase of $9.6 billion over the 2021 request of $705.4 billion in the last year of the Trump Administration. This increase would be an increase of 1.36 percent over last year's request. Of the 2021 request, submitted in February 2020, Congress enacted $703.7 billion. Federal fiscal year 2022 begins next 1 Oct. In a nod to military technology development, The 2022 DOD budget request proposes spending $112 billion for defense research, development, test, and evaluation - a 5.1 percent increase over 2021 - which Biden Administration officials say would be the largest-ever Pentagon research budget. Much of the military research budget would go for technological priorities like microelectronics, hypersonic missiles, artificial intelligence (AI), cyberspace capabilities, and a military 5G network, DOD officials say.
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