# Project 674596 — AOC WS Modifications

**Program element:** 0207410F — Air & Space Operations Center (AOC)  
**Project:** 674596  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force  
**Appropriation:** 3600 — RDT&E, Air Force  
**Budget Activity:** 7 — Operational System Development  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0207410F/674596  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0207410F

## Summary

Project 674596 — AOC WS Modifications requests $89.6M in FY2027, 56% of the $158.9M requested for program element 0207410F, up 8.8% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request. AFLCMC/FZA is the largest named R-3 performer at $9.4M, 10% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0207410F; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development; Support; Management Services.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| AFLCMC/FZA | 9.4 | 10% |

> Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations. Shares need not reach 100% — unnamed and government work is in the denominator.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AOC WS Modifications Development | 63.1 | 82.3 | 89.6 | +9% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0207410F/674596/a0) |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### AOC WS Modifications Development

- 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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0207410F/674596/a0

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0207410F.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0207410F project 674596 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0207410F")`.

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