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RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Strategic Mission Planning & Execution System (SMPES)

PE 0304100F·U.S. Air Force·Approp. 3600 — RDT&E·BA7 — Operational System Development
FY2027 Request
$89.7M
Air Force · RDT&E
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U.S. Air Force funding ramps 21% to a $89.7M request in FY2027, 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. Northrop Grumman leads the industry work.

FY2027 Request
$89.7M
▲ 21% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$74.2M
▲ 10% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$67.4M
Prior year

Roll-up of 2 projects. Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it.

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Air Force is requesting $89.7M for Strategic Mission Planning & Execution System (SMPES) under RDT&E program element 0304100F, up 21% 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.

255075100125067.4FY25ACTUAL74.2FY26ENACTED89.7FY27REQUEST97.3FY28132.2FY29116.6FY30121.2FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual67.4
FY2026Enacted74.2
FY2027Request89.7
FY2028Outyear97.3
FY2029Outyear132.2
FY2030Outyear116.6
FY2031Outyear121.2
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

2 projects roll up into PE 0304100F

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 21% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Congressional action

Congressional marks

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

RequestPresident's Budget
$89.7M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$89.7M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$89.7M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$89.7M 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.

Northrop Grumman
$31.9M · 36%
Primary Development - NPES, Targeting, Missiles · CPAF
Leidos
$12.7M · 14%
Primary Development - Air Vehicle & Quality Review-Mission Planning & Analysis Common Service (QR MPACS) · CPAF
Where FY2027 funding flowsShare$M
Industry primes60%53.9
Government labs & warfare centers0.7%0.7
Other / unspecified39%35.1
FY2027 request100%89.7
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Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

This budget line funds the SMPES PE. Legacy PEs 0101324F ISPAN and 0301112F NPES and NLCC DSS have been consolidated into one SMPES PE 0304100F. The SMPES PE is comprised of two Budget Program Activity Codes (BPAC): SMPES and NLCC DSS. SMPES is an integrated enterprise solution software system providing the Department of War (DoW) and U.S. strategic nuclear forces' principal nuclear planning and analysis tools; including tools for consequence analysis and deliberate, adaptive, and crisis action planning for strategic deterrence.

The Strategic Mission Planning and Execution System (SMPES) program will implement Agile DevSecOps Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) to develop and modernize software for combatant commanders; producing a secure software development environment located in existing space at Offutt AFB, NE and other locations. Software development environment will meet classification/security regulations/criteria, which will promote competition. The program will consider the best contract options to implement the Agile DevSecOps CI/CD strategy. Other activities are also accomplished through the use of various contracting vehicles such as Military Interdepartmental Purchase Requests (MIPRs).

Project 675029, 674212 — Strategic Mission Planning & Execution System
  • Product Development
  • Support
  • Test and Evaluation
  • Management Services
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FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0304100F (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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FY2027 Request
$77.9M
▲ 25% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$62.6M
▲ 12% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$55.8M
Prior year

Strategic Mission Planning & Execution System — one RDT&E project inside PE 0304100F. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.

Project 675029 — Strategic Mission Planning & Execution System — requests $77.9M in FY2027, 87% of the $89.7M requested for program element 0304100F. Year over year it grows 25% against FY2026.

Funding trajectory

Project 675029 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.

255075100055.8FY25ACTUAL62.6FY26ENACTED77.9FY27REQUEST86.4FY28121.3FY29105.5FY30109.8FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual55.8
FY2026Enacted62.6
FY2027Request77.9
FY2028Outyear86.4
FY2029Outyear121.3
FY2030Outyear105.5
FY2031Outyear109.8
Inside the project

1 accomplishment / planned program

The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.

Strategic Mission Planning and Execution System (SMPES)▲ 25%
FY2025 actual$55.8M
FY2026 enacted$62.6M
FY2027 request$77.9M

Continuing activities will include, but are not limited to the following: - Begin build out of MVCR FY27 capability to support new data system architecture - Continue implementation of Zero Trust - Continue to enhance automated deployments to enable continuous delivery to sites with minimal system administrator personnel - Implement…

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Who's building it

Named performers on project 675029

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.

Northrop Grumman
$31.9M · 41%
Leidos
$12.7M · 16%
Lockheed Martin
$8.7M · 11%
Katmai
$0.5M · 0.7%
Project detail

What project 675029 buys

Strategic Mission Planning and Execution System (SMPES) will be the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and U.S. strategic nuclear forces' principal nuclear planning and analysis tool for accessing consequence analysis information and strategic deterrence. SMPES consolidates the following six independently managed programs into one system: 1) Mission Planning and Analysis System (MPAS); 2) Global Adaptive Planning Collaborative Information Environment (GAP-CIE); 3) Decision Support Service (DSS) - Nuclear Command and Control (NC2) Conference Module; 4) Nuclear Planning and Execution System Recapitalization (NPES Recap); 5) Force Status Readiness (FSR); and 6) Force Survivability Analysis and Management (FSAM). 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
  • Support
  • Test and Evaluation
  • Management Services
FY2027 Request
$11.7M
▲ 0.8% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$11.7M
▲ 0.6% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$11.6M
Prior year

NLCC Decision Support System — one RDT&E project inside PE 0304100F. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.

Project 674212 — NLCC Decision Support System — requests $11.7M in FY2027, 13% of the $89.7M requested for program element 0304100F. Year over year it grows 0.8% against FY2026.

Funding trajectory

Project 674212 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.

011.6FY25ACTUAL11.7FY26ENACTED11.7FY27REQUEST10.9FY2810.9FY2911.1FY3011.4FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual11.6
FY2026Enacted11.7
FY2027Request11.7
FY2028Outyear10.9
FY2029Outyear10.9
FY2030Outyear11.1
FY2031Outyear11.4
Inside the project

1 accomplishment / planned program

The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.

National Leadership Command Capability Decision Support Service (NLCC DSS) - Conference Module Development▲ 1%
FY2025 actual$11.6M
FY2026 enacted$11.7M
FY2027 request$11.7M

Activities will include, but are not limited to the following: - Continue development activities of the first of the two additional conference modules - Continue requirement refinement and begin development of the second of the two additional conference modules - Continue development for NC2 conference module as required for operator or…

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Project 674212 — every activity in full →
Project detail

What project 674212 buys

This budget line funds the National Leadership Command Capability (NLCC) Decision Support Service (DSS). NLCC DSS will develop and deliver software to directly support strategic leaders in time critical national events. NLCC DSS will improve situational awareness of threats to the U.S. and its Allies, aggregate strategic-level information, and provide response options in a common, resilient, and mobile visual display capability. NLCC DSS is developing conference modules that will directly support senior leaders with a common visual display to enhance national-level situational awareness and strategic-level decision making. The program includes the Nuclear Command and Control (NC2) Conference Module that will be integrated into the Strategic Mission Planning and Execution System (SMPES) enterprise architecture as well as at least two additional follow-on conference modules to support other mission areas and Combatant Commands. These additional conference modules are not expected to be a part of the SMPES enterprise architecture. 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
  • Support
  • Management Services