Pentagon asks for more funds for high-tech weapons: In a bid to keep the US military's technological edge, President Barack Obama's proposed budget for 2016 calls for an increase in defense spending to pay for high-tech weapons and training.
The $585 billion request for the Pentagon would devote $107.7 billion to big-ticket weapons -- an increase of $14.1 billion over the previous budget.
And it would set aside $50.9 billion for the US mission in Afghanistan and the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria -- a 21 percent decrease in war funding, known as the "overseas contingency operations" fund.
