RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Defense Readiness Reporting System (DRRS)

PE 0207611F·U.S. Air Force·Approp. 3600 — RDT&E·BA7 — Operational System Development
FY2027 Request
$6.8M
Air Force · RDT&E
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U.S. Air Force funding falls 22% to a $6.8M request in FY2027 (down from a FY2026 peak), sustained across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators funded it in full.

FY2027 Request
$6.8M
▼ 22% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$8.8M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Air Force is requesting $6.8M for Defense Readiness Reporting System (DRRS) under RDT&E program element 0207611F, down 22% from FY2026.

Funding trajectory

Funding profile, 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.

00.0FY25ACTUAL8.8FY26ENACTED6.8FY27REQUEST6.6FY286.5FY296.3FY306.4FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual0.0
FY2026Enacted8.8
FY2027Request6.8
FY2028Outyear6.6
FY2029Outyear6.5
FY2030Outyear6.3
FY2031Outyear6.4
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 7 — Operational System Development.

Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Complete
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Complete
Prototyping
BA 4
Current
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element

1 project rolls up into PE 0207611F

Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year. This PE moves -22% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project 675273

Defense Readiness Reporting System (DRRS)

$6.8MFY2027 request ▼ 22%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$8.8M
FY2027 request$6.8M
Product Development

This package incorporates RDT&E funds to maintain constant readiness landscape changes, which entail software changes, new requirements, etc. to Air Force DRRS-S. DRRS-S is an OSD platform providing readiness reporting capabilities to the DoD. The DRRS-S mission is to establish a mission focused, capabilities based, common framework that provides the combatant commanders, military services, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other key DoD users a data-driven environment and tools in which to evaluate, in near real-time, the readiness and capability of the U.S. Armed Forces to carry our assigned and potential tasks. These assigned and potential tasks sometimes drive software changes and development specifically for the Air Force which require RDT&E funding to achieve the ability to measure readiness. One example would be the development of Combat Wing. This drives a new assessment framework which needs to be developed within DRRS-S so commanders can measure the readiness of combat wings as a single capability, which are different from the way the Air Force currently assesses readiness. By not having the development ability with the RDT&E funding, readiness reporting will not meet the needs of Joint Staff, Congress, Commanders, or any end users of Air Force Readiness data. MODIFY THE DEFENSE READINESS REPORTING SYSTEM TO SUPPORT ENCHANCE RESOURCE REPORTING FOR COMBAT WINGS: Air Force modifications to force presentation and organization requires modifications new capabilities in DRRS to allow for presented forces to reflect meaningful resource and capability ratings that fully encompass the entirety of capability packages. This change will allow the AF to present fully capability packages with a single resource rating informed by supporting unit ratings. This will provide key decision makers with decision quality data reflecting the full capability package. This is in addition to the current functional unit structure that requires deeper cross referencing to account for the full capability package. The system will combine resource data from multiple units (where reasonable) to reflect combat unit readiness informed by combat support and combat service support limits. MODIFY THE DEFENSE READINESS REPORTING SYSTEM AIR FORCE INPUT TOOL TO STREAMLINE REPORTING: The Air Force Input Tool module of DRRS is the interface by which Air Force units report Readiness.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Defense Readiness Report System - Strategic▼ 22%
FY2025 actual
FY2026 enacted$8.8M
FY2027 request$6.8M

FY2027 planned work Redesign and enhance legacy AF-IT tools. Continue OSD DRRS Implementation Office (DIO) partnership, enhancing DRRS source code to implement future Air Force requirements, develop/install future versions of AF-IT, and focus on requirements development to better meet CSAF and JS needs.

FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase is estimated and associated with inflation.

FY2026 plans — current year Redesign and enhance legacy AF-IT tools. Continue OSD DRRS Implementation Office (DIO) partnership, enhancing DRRS source code to implement future Air Force requirements, develop/install future versions of AF-IT, and focus on requirements development to better meet CSAF and JS needs.

The whole program

DRRS is funded on 2 lines across 2 appropriations

This page shows $6.8M of DRRS, 43% of the program's $15.7M FY2027 request. The rest is appropriated elsewhere.

Also funded hereTypeComponentFY2027 $M
Defense Readiness Reporting System (DRRS)RDT&EDefense-Wide8.9
DRRS totalAir Force, Defense-Wide15.7

Lines whose title names the program. 0 further lines only mention DRRS in their justification text — those fund something else and are deliberately excluded from the total.

Congressional action

Congressional marks

Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.

RequestPresident's Budget
$6.8M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$6.8M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$6.8M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$6.8M full · +$0
unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Who's building it

Where the FY2027 request goes

Performers named in the R-3 exhibit, resolved into industry, government-lab, and unspecified shares. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.

Where FY2027 funding flowsShare$M
Other / unspecified100%6.8
FY2027 request100%6.8
Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

This package incorporates RDT&E funds to maintain constant readiness landscape changes, which entail software changes, new requirements, etc. to Air Force DRRS-S. DRRS-S is an OSD platform providing readiness reporting capabilities to the DoD. The DRRS-S mission is to establish a mission focused, capabilities based, common framework that provides the combatant commanders, military services, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other key DoD users a data-driven environment and tools in which to evaluate, in near real-time, the readiness and capability of the U.S. Armed Forces to carry our assigned and potential tasks.

Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) utilizes a common contract vehicle to support Defense Readiness Reporting System (DRRS). The DAF partners with OSD for DRRS and AF-IT development. This partnership ensures OSD and AF continuous development continuity. On this contract AF has existing operating and maintenance support to manage standard maintenance and service specific support.

Project 675273 — Defense Readiness Reporting System (DRRS)
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FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0207611F (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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