RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Air Base Resiliency

PE 0208007F·U.S. Air Force·Approp. 3600 — RDT&E·BA7 — Operational System Development
FY2027 Request
$48.9M
⚑ Contested — House cuts 10.0%
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U.S. Air Force funding ramps 261% to a $48.9M request in FY2027 — the program's peak, before stepping down 74% across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House cut 10.0% (to $44.0M); the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators funded it in full. Chicken Little leads the industry work.

FY2027 Request
$48.9M
▲ 261% vs FY2026
House mark
$44.0M
▼ $4.9M vs request
FY2026 Enacted
$13.5M
In law

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Air Force is requesting $48.9M for Air Base Resiliency under RDT&E program element 0208007F, up 261% over FY2026. In the FY2027 defense authorization, House moved to cut it to $44.0M.

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.

2500.5FY25ACTUAL13.5FY26ENACTED48.9FY27REQUEST25.7FY2812.6FY2912.6FY3012.9FY31HOUSE
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP) House mark
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual0.5
FY2026Enacted13.5
FY2027Request48.9
FY2028Outyear25.7
FY2029Outyear12.6
FY2030Outyear12.6
FY2031Outyear12.9
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 0208007F

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 261% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project 674550

Air Base Resiliency

$48.9MFY2027 request ▲ 261%
FY2025 actual$0.5M
FY2026 enacted$13.5M
FY2027 request$48.9M
Product DevelopmentTest and EvaluationManagement Services

Tactical Deception (Tac-D) is a Service program to provide a suite of technologies that will enable the USAF to minimize, distort, or create signatures. This includes technologies to confuse or mislead all major categories of adversary sensors. These capabilities can reduce confidence in adversary assessments, exhaust intelligence enterprises, and disrupt targeting cycles. In addition, these technologies and tactics techniques and procedures (TTPs) can be employed across the competition continuum for deterrence or advantage in conflict. Tac-D, Counter- Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C-ISR) also supports all activities and costs needed to support the Air Force to further these types of development projects, as well as required program support costs (PSC). This program element included all necessary expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605833F, and 0605898F. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Non-Kinetic Air Base Defense▲ 179%
FY2025 actual$0.5M
FY2026 enacted$13.5M
FY2027 request$37.7M

FY2027 planned work Complete the development, testing and assembly of Air Base Defense prototypes.

FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding increased due to completion of Air Base Defense development, testing, and delivery of prototypes. Further details can be provided upon request through the appropriate forum.

FY2026 plans — current year Continue Air Base Defense development, testing, and operational support. Further details can be provided upon request through the appropriate forum.

Theater CapabilitiesNEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$11.1M

FY2027 planned work Plans for Theater Capabilities available to discuss at a higher classification.

FY2026 to FY2027 change In FY 2027, PE 0207439F, Electromagnetic Warfare Int Reprog, Project 677722, Airbase Kits efforts were transferred to PE 0208007F in order to consolidate work in this capability field into the same PE.

FY2026 plans — current year In FY 2027, PE 0207439F, Electromagnetic Warfare Int Reprog, Project 677722, Airbase Kits efforts were transferred to PE 0208007F in order to consolidate work in this capability field into the same PE.

Congressional action

The request is contested

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

RequestPresident's Budget
$48.9M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$44.0M −$4.9M · −10.0%
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$48.9M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$48.9M full · +$0
▲ $4.9M chamber gap — 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
Industry primes0.8%0.4
Other / unspecified99%48.5
FY2027 request100%48.9
Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

Tactical Deception (Tac-D) is a Service program to provide a suite of technologies that will enable the USAF to minimize, distort, or create signatures. This includes technologies to confuse or mislead all major categories of adversary sensors. These capabilities can reduce confidence in adversary assessments, exhaust intelligence enterprises, and disrupt targeting cycles. In addition, these technologies and tactics techniques and procedures (TTPs) can be employed across the competition continuum for deterrence or advantage in conflict.

In FY2027 Tactical Deception will continue working to mature & validate technologies in order to transition to Program of Record.

Project 674550 — Air Base Resiliency
  • Product Development
  • Test and Evaluation
  • Management Services
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Sources
FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0208007F (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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