Dive summary:

• Within the $129.7 billion budget that the Army has requested for Fiscal Year 2014, $2.3 billion is listed as being for construction, a drop of $1.2 billion from this year's level.
• Of the total, the Army wants to funnel $750 million into housing for soldiers' families, work associated with the ongoing base realignment and closure (BRAC) effort and for training ranges, reserve readiness centers and infrastructure replacement.
• In the spending plan is construction to support two new combat aviation brigades – the 13th, to be based at Fort Carson, Colo., and the 16th, which will be split between Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington and Fort Wainwright, Alaska

From the article:

[Deputy Budget Director David S.] Welch said the funding request for facilities reflects "a return to the more historical spending levels."