Report to Congress on FY 2027 Defense Funding for Selected Weapon Systems

The following is the July 7, 2026, Congressional Research Service report, FY2027 Defense Budget: Funding for Selected Weapon Systems. From the Report The second Trump Administration’s Department of Defense (DOD) budget request for FY2027 included $1.1 trillion in discretionary funding and $350.0 billion in mandatory funding. (DOD is “using a secondary Department of War designation,” under Executive Order 14347, dated September 5, 2025.) DOD requested $413.1 billion in procurement and $343.7 billion in research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E) discretionary and mandatory funding, in part to support weapon systems. In its FY2027 request, DOD included two types of funding: discretionary