R-2A Activity · President's Budget PB2027

ACC Kill Chain Automation

FY2027 Request
$25.2M
▼ 3.9% vs FY2026
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This activity requests $25.2M in FY2027, 77% of project 675307, down 3.9% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

FY2027 Request
$25.2M
▼ 3.8% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$26.2M
▲ 47% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$17.7M
Prior year
Planned work

What the FY2027 request buys

Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 675307 of PE 0207431F. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.

FY2027 planned work

Continue Kill Chain automation support to enhance F2T2EA S2S intelligence, integration with C3BM and DAF Battle Net along with training on applications to shorten and automate long range kill chains. Enhance F2T2EA S2S intelligence systems of record/programs of primacy focusing on data standardization, Object/Element normalization, and systems integration. Additionally, supports development for training on applications to shorten and automate long range kill chains in accordance with current operations and Joint Warfighting Concepts 3.0. This includes intelligence Unit-level-to-National integration of: Turbo (Disposition-of-Forces Object/Elements); Cognos (Algorithmic/AI data visualization and system insight analysis); Snapglass (Common Intelligence/Operating Picture and algorithmic/relationship analysis); Katana (dynamic strike custody, target reporting, and decision-making optimization); FADE/MIST (Unit-level data analysis and alerting for custom/combined mission integration); Odysseus (Automatic Target Recognition and machine enhanced Category 1 (one) target coordinate generation); IDEX 2.0 (ISR Collection and Operational Control/Management); and Kraken (Joint All Domain Integrate ISR feasibility, planning, and optimization automation)

FY2026 to FY2027 change

FY 2027 budget increase.

Before the request year

FY2026: the year under way

Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.

FY2026 plans — current year

Continue Kill Chain Acceleration/Automation efforts between the Intelligence Unit-Level and greater Air and Joint Forces community. Enhance F2T2EA S2S intelligence systems of record/programs of primacy focusing on data standardization, Object/Element normalization, and systems integration. Additionally, supports development for training on applications to shorten and automate long range kill chains in accordance with current operations and Joint Warfighting Concepts 3.0. This includes intelligence Unit-level-to-National integration of: Turbo (Disposition-of-Forces Object/Elements); Cognos (Algorithmic/AI data visualization and system insight analysis); Snapglass (Common Intelligence/Operating Picture and algorithmic/relationship analysis); Katana (dynamic strike custody, target reporting, and decision-making optimization); FADE/MIST (Unit-level data analysis and alerting for custom/combined mission integration); Odysseus (Automatic Target Recognition and machine enhanced Category 1 (one) target coordinate generation); IDEX 2.0 (ISR Collection and Operational Control/Management); and Kraken (Joint All Domain Integrate ISR feasibility, planning, and optimization automation)

Money

Three years, and no five-year plan

An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.

25017.7FY25ACTUAL26.2FY26ENACTED25.2FY27REQUEST
Actual Enacted Request
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual17.7
FY2026Enacted26.2
FY2027Request25.2

This activity is 77% of project 675307's FY2027 request and 75% of PE 0207431F's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.

Where this sits

4 activities in project 675307

Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the project page.

ACC Kill Chain Automation — this activity$25.2M ▼ 4%
Kessel Run Targeting Research, Modernization, and SoftWare Pathways$4.5M ▼ 18%
ACC Joint Targeting Intelligence Modernization/Joint Targeting Toolbox (JTT)$3.1M ▲ 2%
AF ISR Digital Infrastructure (DI)
Source
FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibit R-2A · PE 0207431F, project 675307 (President's Budget PB2027). Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, never on an activity.
Machine access
Markdown twin /programs/0207431F/675307/a1.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.combudget_get_activity