RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Commercial Economic Analysis

PE 0304310F·U.S. Air Force·Approp. 3600 — RDT&E·BA7 — Operational System Development
FY2027 Request
$1.7M
Air Force · RDT&E
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U.S. Air Force funding falls 58% to a $1.7M 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. Strider, Craft, Bluefoot leads the industry work.

FY2027 Request
$1.7M
▼ 58% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$4.1M
▼ 10% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$4.5M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Air Force is requesting $1.7M for Commercial Economic Analysis under RDT&E program element 0304310F, down 58% from 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.

04.5FY25ACTUAL4.1FY26ENACTED1.7FY27REQUEST1.9FY282.0FY292.1FY302.2FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual4.5
FY2026Enacted4.1
FY2027Request1.7
FY2028Outyear1.9
FY2029Outyear2.0
FY2030Outyear2.1
FY2031Outyear2.2
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

1 project rolls up into PE 0304310F

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 -58% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project 675896

Commercial Economic Analysis

$1.7MFY2027 request ▼ 58%
FY2025 actual$4.5M
FY2026 enacted$4.1M
FY2027 request$1.7M
Product DevelopmentSupport

To preserve Department of the Air Force and DoD military advantage from commercial and economic risk and identify commercial and economic opportunities to develop asymmetric advantage, the Office of Commercial and Economic Analysis (OCEA) produces in-depth analytical assessments and advanced risk mitigation strategies based on commercially available industry, market, and economic information. OCEA works with the HAF/SAF and Components to develop these strategies and establish market-based capabilities for the protection of the National Security Innovation Base, Defense Industrial Base, and the overall Industrial competitiveness of the United States. The funding request provides for an enterprise analytic framework for providing aggregate risk insights, mitigation strategies, and impact analytic products. The funding also supports continuous assessment of the commercially available information to ensure it is accurate, current, and relevant. Reduced Service Contracts by $2.498M. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In PY 0.00M was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in CY 0.00M is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element. 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
Commercial Economic Analysis▼ 58%
FY2025 actual$4.5M
FY2026 enacted$4.1M
FY2027 request$1.7M

FY2027 planned work Will continue to use existing contracts and Commercial Solutions Openings (CSO) purchase orders for a continuation of modular components and data architecture from work supporting risk management, risk migration and non-traditional support capabilities.

FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease is due to SBIR/STTR reductions.

FY2026 plans — current year Continue to use existing contracts and Commercial Solutions Openings (CSO) purchase orders for a continuation of modular components and data architecture from work supporting risk management, risk migration and non-traditional support capabilities.

Congressional action

Congressional marks

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

RequestPresident's Budget
$1.7M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$1.7M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$1.7M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$1.7M 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.

Strider, Craft, Bluefoot
$1.5M · 88%
Data Applications · FP
Dun & Bradstreet
$0.2M · 12%
Data Integration · FFP
Where FY2027 funding flowsShare$M
Industry primes100%1.7
FY2027 request100%1.7
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Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

To preserve Department of the Air Force and DoD military advantage from commercial and economic risk and identify commercial and economic opportunities to develop asymmetric advantage, the Office of Commercial and Economic Analysis (OCEA) produces in-depth analytical assessments and advanced risk mitigation strategies based on commercially available industry, market, and economic information. OCEA works with the HAF/SAF and Components to develop these strategies and establish market-based capabilities for the protection of the National Security Innovation Base, Defense Industrial Base, and the overall Industrial competitiveness of the United States.

Pursue competitively awarded contracts for follow-on to existing contract and task orders, with emphasis on system integration and corresponding data architectures. IDIQ task orders and specific system integration, cloud connectivity, and data contracts are the cornerstone of OCEA RDT&E activities.

Project 675896 — Commercial Economic Analysis
  • Product Development
  • Support
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Sources
FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0304310F (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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