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RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Federal Investigative Services Information Technology

PE 0303430V·Defense-Wide·Approp. 0400 — RDT&E·BA7 — Operational System Development
FY2027 Request
$50.9M
◆ Scaling +124%
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Defense-Wide funding ramps 124% to a $50.9M request in FY2027 — the program's peak, with nothing planned by FY2031. 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
$50.9M
▲ 124% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$22.7M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, Defense-Wide agencies are requesting $50.9M for Federal Investigative Services Information Technology under RDT&E program element 0303430V, up 124% over 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.

255000.0FY25ACTUAL22.7FY26ENACTED50.9FY27REQUEST49.0FY280.0FY290.0FY300.0FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual0.0
FY2026Enacted22.7
FY2027Request50.9
FY2028Outyear49.0
FY2029Outyear0.0
FY2030Outyear0.0
FY2031Outyear0.0
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 0303430V

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 124% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project 005

NBIS

$50.9MFY2027 request ▲ 124%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$22.7M
FY2027 request$50.9M
Product Development

The National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) portfolio of systems and applications provides E2E Personnel Vetting (PV) for the United States Government (USG). NBIS is a discrete set of IT resources organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemination, or disposition of personal vetting information, including the full lifecycle of processes and procedures that inform and enable the PV process: Initial Vetting, Continuous Vetting (CV), Upgrades, Transfer of Trust, and Re-establishment of Trust. The NBIS system will comprise of a portfolio of twenty-one PV systems and applications with multiple sub-systems. The architecture, software language and interfaces for these systems vary widely and include both on-premises mainframe and servers as well as cloud hosted services and applications. For clarity, these systems and their applications will be grouped in categories including Background Investigation Enterprise Systems (BIES), Defense Information System for Security (DISS), MIRADOR, Secure Web Fingerprint Transmission (SWFT), applications developed under National Background Investigation Services (NBIS), Other Transaction Authority (OTA) Agreement, and Department of War (DoW) Consolidated Adjudication Services (CAS) Apps (formerly known as “CAF Apps”). Given the uniqueness of the capability and the objective to utilize existing PV capital investments, prior efforts to develop a single NBIS system are being redirected towards a portfolio modernization program. This program can be divided into smaller and more manageable modernization activities. During the NBIS modernization process, DCSA will continue to operate the existing NBIS infrastructure serving the USG today, while progressively migrating components of the system into a USG-owned cloud. Cloud migration will include a cloud readiness assessment and the refactoring of the NBIS underlying software and infrastructure into modular, cloud-native applications, shared services capabilities, cybersecurity features, and interoperability. RDT&E funds support the migration and modernization of the NBIS portfolio of systems,

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
NBIS▲ 124%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$22.7M
FY2027 request$50.9M

NBIS will complete the modernization and migration of the nine BIES applications into the cloud environment. NBIS will continue to modernize and implement Trusted Workforce 2.0 capabilities within personnel vetting mission applications to meet stakeholder requirements and fill user capability gaps

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Congressional action

Congressional marks

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

RequestPresident's Budget
$50.9M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$50.9M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$50.9M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$50.9M 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%50.9
FY2027 request100%50.9
Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

The Defense Counterintelligence Security Agency (DCSA) is a strategic asset to the nation and our allies - continuously ensuring a trusted federal, industrial, and affiliated workforce, and enabling industry's delivery of uncompromised capabilities by leveraging advanced technologies and innovation. DCSA uniquely blends critical technology protection, trusted personnel vetting, counterintelligence, and professional education and certification to advance and preserve America's strategic edge. The National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) portfolio of systems and applications provide end to end (E2E) Personnel Vetting (PV) for the United States Government (USG).

Project 005 — NBIS
  • Product Development
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FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0303430V (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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