{"id":88737,"date":"2025-06-27T00:41:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T00:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/06\/27\/army-seeks-197-billion-fy26-budget-with-transformation-plan-at-center\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:13:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:13:03","slug":"army-seeks-197-billion-fy26-budget-with-transformation-plan-at-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2025\/06\/27\/army-seeks-197-billion-fy26-budget-with-transformation-plan-at-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Army seeks $197 billion FY26 budget with transformation plan at center"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As the U.S. Army attempts one of the biggest reorganizations in recent decades<\/a>, it will have to do it within the confines of a minimal budget increase in fiscal 2026 amid unrelenting inflation and as demands for the force grow at home and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army is requesting $192 billion for its fiscal 2026 base budget and is also banking on an additional $5.4 billion in funding included in a separate $113 billion party-line spending bill now under debate in Congress, according to a service-issued budget overview document released Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Factoring both the base request and the one-time bill, the Army is planning on working with a budget of $197.4 billion, which marks a nearly 7% increase over last year\u2019s enacted amount<\/a> of $184.6 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army announced at the start of last month that it would undertake a massive transformation to include consolidating major commands, making drastic force structure changes and canceling a wide variety of programs where billions have already been spent to make way for priority efforts perceived to increase overall lethality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To jump start the Army Transformation Initiative, the service has to make major muscle movements in its fiscal 2026 budget, and an Army official Thursday emphasized an effort to \u201cdivest\u201d old or ineffective equipment in order to \u201cinvest\u201d in enhancing combat formations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army is requesting to divest $4.9 billion in old equipment and requirements. These include divesting Paladin Integrated Management howitzers, legacy anti-tank missiles, Gray Eagle Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Humvees, according to the budget overview document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The service has listed the M10 Booker<\/a>, the Joint Light Tactical Vehicle, the Improved Turbine Engine Program<\/a> and Future Tactical UAS as programs that will be reduced in the budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\t