What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project JS1 of PE 0303153K. 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.
In FY 2027, DISA is embarking on EMS IT Modernization to create a common artificial intelligence-enabled platform for Spectrum tools and capabilities – Maven Smart Systems (MSS). Modernization will include the following activities: • Transition EMBM-J functionality (SA, DS, C2) into MSS common data integrator and automation platform on Impact Level (IL)-6. • Initiate development of legacy spectrum management / frequency assignment functions (SXXI) into the MSS common data integrator and automation platform on IL-6. • Initiate expansion of EMS functionality into Top Secret environments, including respective cross domain integration. • Initiate extension of EMS functionality to one Joint Operational Edge (JOE) node to enable Denied, Degraded, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) operations. • Integration of artificial intelligence/machine learning for EMS functions to include EMBM-J functionality (SA, DS, C2) and spectrum management. DISA will also continue enhancing EMBM-J mission capability through agile/iterative releases to: • Begin automating Command and Control (C2) and interoperability between Joint and electromagnetic spectrum operations tools to streamline electromagnetic spectrum operations requirements through established Joint and Component-level chains of command critical to mission planning / execution. • Fuse additional EMS mission datasets, automate the development and analysis of the electromagnetic order of battle, electromagnetic operating environment, and advanced EMS modeling and simulation. • Incorporate artificial intelligence to support ingestion and generation of electromagnetic spectrum operations planning and execution orders. EMS IT Modernization is occurring in direct coordination with DoW CIO, Joint Staff J6, Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) and Electromagnetic Spectrum Steering Group (EMS SSG).
The increase of +$33.151 million from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is for EMS IT modernization. DISA is migrating EMBM-J and other legacy capabilities to a single platform and data integrator, Maven Smart Systems (MSS), and expanding to one Joint Operational Edge (JOE) cloud node for resiliency. EMS IT modernization will optimize spectrum management, frequency allocation, and EMS operations.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
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.
In FY 2026, DISA is continuing to develop the EMBM-J mission capability in support of DoW's Electromagnetic Spectrum Strategy. • Continue rapid software releases to expand and enhance situational awareness and the EMS Joint Planning processes by providing additional data, automation, and functionality.
Key FY 2025 efforts include: • Continuing to conduct Joint Ordnance Commander Group (JOCG) HERO Subgroup meetings to support JOCG Executive Steering Committee and to develop/maintain the HERO susceptibility data records. • Continuing to conduct forward deployed base HERO surveys for the CCMDs, Services, and CONUS based emitter surveys to validate the ordnance safety databases and update the DoD ordnance RF safety requirements. • Updating and developing EME system profiles that provide situational awareness of systems in operating environments. • Conducting monthly DoD E3 Integrated Product Team (IPT) Meetings. • Supporting DoD CIO, the Joint Staff, and other DoD Components with E3, spectrum, and hazards of EM radiation. • Reviewing and updating Joint Staff and DoD CIO JCIDS and ISP acquisition documents. • Providing E3 and Spectrum Supportability (SS) training to the DoD Components. • Developing and maintaining E3 and SS training curricula at the Defense Acquisition University. • Continuing to develop JOERAD and providing one version release, which will deliver additional analysis capabilities.
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.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 14.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 15.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 48.8 |
This activity is 99% of project JS1's FY2027 request and 99% of PE 0303153K'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.
4 activities in project JS1
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 program-element page.