With the Pentagon’s FY27 budget request forthcoming, it’s unclear if it will hit $1.5 trillion

Ashley Roque and Valerie Insinna

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WASHINGTON — It’s “pencils down” on options for a $1.5 trillion defense spending request for fiscal 2027, but the Trump administration is still fleshing out just what vehicles it will use to ask for those dollars, according to Jules Hurst who is performing the duties of the Pentagon’s comptroller.

“We’re in the final stages” of cementing the budget, Hurst told Breaking Defense at the McAleese Defense Programs conference Tuesday. “We’ll keep the FY27 budget intact, and then if there’s a supplemental, it would be separate from the budget.”

The budget’s “going to procure many more aircraft during the FYDP [Future Years Defense Program], more ships, tens of thousands of critical munitions,” he added. “It’s going to make sure that we stay dominant in space … and allow us to make the big investments needed in drone dominance,” he said earlier on stage.