RDT&E Project · President's Budget PB2027

Global Aircrew Strategic Network Terminal

FY2027 Request
$18.0M
◆ New start in FY2027
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Project 676029 — Global Aircrew Strategic Network Terminal requests $18.0M in FY2027, 7.1% of the $254.8M requested for program element 0303131F — a new start, with no prior-year and no current-year money. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request, 1 new this cycle. RTX / Raytheon is the largest named R-3 performer at $12.1M, 67% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

New start

This project requests $18.0M in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding. There is no incumbent line to compare it with — it did not exist before this President's Budget.

FY2027 Request
$18.0M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year
Project detail

What project 676029 buys

Global Aircrew Strategic Network Terminal Increment 1 (Global ASNT Inc 1) system replaces inadequate, unsustainable strategic communications equipment at bomber and tanker Wing Command Posts (WCPs), Munitions Support Squadrons (MUNSS), and Mobile Support Teams (MSTs). The system supports Nuclear Response CONOPS to produce operational outcomes supporting Global Force Management, Global Defense, Information Transport, Information Assurance, and Space Force operations. Global ASNT Inc 1 systems provide 24 hours, 7 days per week survivable, redundant communication links for the Command and Control of Nuclear Task Forces (NTF) by the President through the National Military Command System, with advice from the Secretary of War, Combatant Commanders, and associated senior leadership. To ensure interoperability with the Evolved Strategic Satellite Communication system, the Global ASNT Inc 1 system needs to modernize its hardware and software suite to enable continued protected survivable communications services with high availability receipt and relay of Emergency Action Messages at United States Air Force NTF, WCPs, MUNSS, and MST. Additionally, the Global ASNT Inc 1 system must continue to operate and survive during all phases of chemical, biological, and radiological conflicts or incidents. 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.

R-3 lines of work
  • Product Development
  • Test and Evaluation
  • Management Services
Funding trajectory

Project 676029 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.

00.0FY25ACTUAL0.0FY26ENACTED18.0FY27REQUEST16.0FY280.0FY290.0FY300.0FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual0.0
FY2026Enacted0.0
FY2027Request18.0
FY2028Outyear16.0
FY2029Outyear0.0
FY2030Outyear0.0
FY2031Outyear0.0
Inside the project

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. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.

Global ASNT Inc 1 ModernizationNEW
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted
FY2027 request$18.0M

FY2027 planned work - Release ESS Software Development, Integration & Test Request for Proposal (RFP) - Begin NSA Certification efforts - Award ESS Software Development, Integration & Test Contract

FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase for Evolved Strategic SATCOM (ESS) Integration efforts

Who's building it

Named performers on project 676029

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.

RTX / Raytheon
$12.1M · 67%
NSA, Maryland
$0.2M · 1.1%