The White House transmitted the proposed federal budget for Fiscal Year 2005 (FY05) to Congress on February 2nd. The budget requests nearly $59.8 billion for information technology (IT). Outlays for the Department of Defense would move from $26.7 billion in FY 2004 to $27 billion in the year that begins this next October. Within Defense, the Air Force shows the greatest increase, while the Army's IT budget drops by about five percent.