What project 674596 buys
This budget line funds the Air Operations Center Weapon System (AOC WS), AN/USQ-163 Falconer, the senior element of the Theater Air Control System (TACS). This is the weapon system that the Commander, Air Force Forces (COMAFFOR) provides the Combined/Joint Force Air Component Commander (C/JFACC) for planning, executing, and assessing theater-wide air and space operations. The C/JFACC provides air, space and cyber support to the Combined/Joint Forces Commander (C/JFC) by coordinating, deconflicting, and assessing the progress of various weapon systems to advance the C/JFC's campaign. The AOC WS develops operations strategy and planning documents. The weapon system also disseminates tasking orders, executes day-to-day peacetime and combat air, space and cyber operations, and provides rapid reaction to immediate situations by exercising positive control of friendly forces. Funding supports continued software engineering capacity required for AOC WS with efforts to optimize and stabilize the AOC infrastructure and the IaaS/Paas development and operational capabilities. AOC WS upgrades are required to support mission requirements at geographic AOCs, global (formerly functional) AOCs, and support and manpower augmentation units, and to keep the AOC current and interoperable with the Combatant Commands (CCMDs), cyber requirements, and next generation weapon systems/weapons. Funding also provides software engineering capacity to deliver air operations capabilities improving speed and automation of the full air tasking cycle, including integration with unit-level sortie generation capabilities that feed friendly order of battle (FrOB) information to the Master Air Attack Plan process. AOC WS modernization utilizes agile methodologies to deliver capabilities that keep pace with evolving commercial and government off the shelf (COTS/GOTS) software components, DoW directives, operational energy security and efficiency objectives, and changes in the underlying IT environment. Additionally, the modernization ensures the AOC WS remains interoperable, certified, and supportable across the lifecycle of new capabilities and upgrades. This includes utilization of a managed cloud IaaS/PaaS hosting platform.
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Project 674596 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 63.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 82.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 89.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 94.9 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 97.1 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 98.9 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 100.2 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. Each describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
- Deliver Application Transformation (AppTX) to the Air Operations Center (AOC) enterprise as the cloud-based AOC Weapon System (WS) to add flexibility and resiliency to operational Command and Control (C2) by supporting distributed operations, maturing Primary Alternate Contingency and Emergency (PACE) planning, increasing real-time…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 674596
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.