On February 26, 2009, the Administration released the broad outlines of its federal budget request for FY2010, listing for each Cabinet department and for several independent agencies the total discretionary budget authority President Obama would request, but providing no additional details. Full details of the request were made public May 7, 2009. For the Department of Defense (DOD) in FY2010, the Administration requested a total of $663.7 billion in discretionary budget authority. This includes $533.7 billion in discretionary budget authority for the so-called base budgetall DOD activities other than combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and associated activitiesand $130.0 billion for what are termed overseas contingency operations, including those in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Administration also requested $75.9 billion in supplemental DOD appropriations for FY2009 to cover war costs. Combined with the $65.9 billion bridge fund for FY2009 emergency war funding included in the Supplemental Appropriations Act for FY2008 (P.L. 110-252), this would bring the total appropriated for FY2009 war costs to $141.8 billion. On April 6, 2009, before full details of the FY2010 budget request were made public, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced recommendations he had made to President Obama concerning FY2010 funding for several major weapons programs and other DOD activities. Gates said the recommendations were intended to change both how DOD prioritizes its missions and how it manages weapons procurement. In particular, Gates said, DOD is organized to focus primarily on preparing for conventional warfare. He intends to place a higher priority on preparing for irregular combat, such as the operations currently underway in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said that the conventional warfare capability of U.S. forces is superior to that of potential adversaries by a big enough margin that DOD can set less technologically ambitious goals for the next-generation of conventional weaponrytanks, warships, fighter planes and the like. Among Gatess recommendations were proposals to close down production of the F-22 fighter and C-17 cargo plane, as DOD had planned. Some have argued for continuing production of these aircraft. This version of this report reflects details of Secretary Gatess April 6 recommendations, but not full details of the May 7 budget release. A future update will fully reflect the detailed May 7 budget request.