Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, center, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, left and Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer Robert F. Hale, right, take their seats to begin testimony before the Senate Budget Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., on June 12, 2013. Hagel, Dempsey and Hale are defending the president’s request for $526.6 billion for the Defense Department’s fiscal year 2014 budget.