Weapons Program Increase, Flat Funding for Nonproliferation Expected in FY 2016 Budget Request

摘要

The Obama Administration is set to ask for a significant Fiscal Year 2016 budget increase for the National NuclearrnSecurity Administration’s weapons program and relatively flat funding for its nonproliferation account, weaponsrncomplex observers and Congressional aides told NS&D Monitor this week. The Administration will unveil its FYrn2016 budget request Monday, and the NNSA’s weapons program is expected to see a request of approximatelyrn$8.8 billion, up from the $8.31 billion the Administration asked for last year and the $8.23 billion enacted byrnCongress in the FY 2016 omnibus spending package. “Pretty consistently it’s clear that the weapons program isrngoing to get a big bump up,” one Congressional aide told NS&D Monitor. “The big issue for appropriations overallrnis that the President is exceeding the [Congressionally established] budget caps—both on defense andrnnon-defense sides—and the request is going to be dead on arrival.”