# Mission Applications

**R-2A activity** of project 674826 — Common Imagery Ground / Surface Systems  
**Program element:** 0305208F — Distributed Common Ground/Surface Systems  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force · **Budget Activity:** 7  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0305208F/674826/a4  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0305208F

## Summary

This activity requests $53.2M in FY2027, 62% of project 674826, up 9.4% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - Will continue to develop, integrate, test and field new and updated GEOINT capabilities on DCGS resilient, distributed architecture to connect, direct, and exploit sensors, as well as transform the vast array of multi-source/multi-domain data from available ISR sensors/sources into actionable intelligence to find, fix, track and inform targeting of adversary forces and enable simultaneous kill chains - Will continue to develop, integrate, test and field new and updated sensor agnostic ingest, management, planning and emulator capabilities - Will continue to develop, integrate, test and field new and updated capabilities to GEOINT-specific High Altitude (HA), Full Motion Video (FMV), and Analysis and Exploitation Team (AET) operational (workflow, exploitation, etc.) capabilities - Will continue to develop, integrate, test and field new and updated SIGINT capabilities on DCGS resilient, distributed architecture to connect, direct, and exploit sensors, as well as transform the vast array of multi-source/multi-domain data from available ISR sensors/sources into actionable intelligence to find, fix, track and inform targeting of adversary forces and enable simultaneous kill chains. - Will continue to develop, integrate, test and field new and updated capabilities to SIGINT-specific and Analysis and Exploitation Team (AET) operational capabilities (workflow, exploitation, etc.) - Will continue to develop, integrate, test and field SIGINT Sensor Data Ingest (SSDI) National Mission Partner Gateway (NMPG) capabilities at additional sites for improved resiliency - Will continue to develop, integrate, test and field new and updated sensor agnostic ingest, management, planning and emulator capabilities - Will continue to develop, integrate, test and field mandated IC/DoD cyber security and Zero Trust capabilities/updates

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Funding increase of $4.584M due to increased development capacity for Mission Applications Imagery Agile Release Train (ART) to provide new/improved GEOINT high-altitude and full motion video exploitation capabilities; SIGINT agile release train to provide new/improved COMINT and ELINT exploitation capabilities

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Mission Applications GEOINT efforts include development and integration of sensor C2, planning, and management; mission management; GEOINT High-Altitude (HA) and Full Motion Video (FMV) processing, exploitation and workflow capabilities; and product dissemination to support DCGS analysts' global orchestration, sense-making, tailored analysis (battlespace awareness, battlespace characterization, and targetable custody) and integration and dissemination of a multitude of sensor data tasks, as well as IC/DoD cyber security and Zero Trust mandates. FY 2026 Plans - Continue to develop and integrate cyber security mandates - Continue to develop, integrate, test and field new and updated GEOINT sensor/sensor mode command and control (C2), mission planning (Enterprise Collection Planner), sensor management and operational capabilities - Continue to develop, integrate, test and field new and updated GEOINT and Full Motion Video (FMV) operational (workflow, exploitation, etc.) and management capabilities on resilient, distributed cloud environment. Will Continue GEOINT mission application commercial cloud efforts. Mission Applications SIGINT efforts include development and integration of sensor C2, planning, and management; mission management; sensor data emulator; SIGINT processing, exploitation and workflow capabilities; and product dissemination to support DCGS analysts' global orchestration, sense-making, tailored analysis (battlespace awareness, battlespace characterization, and targetable custody) and integration and of a multitude of sensor data tasks, as well as IC/DoD cyber security and Zero Trust mandates. FY 2026 Plans: - Continue to develop, integrate, test and field new and updated SIGINT sensor command and control (C2), mission planning, and sensor management operational capabilities as well as sensor emulator capabilities - Continue to develop, integrate, test, and field new and updated SIGINT-specific operational (workflow and exploitation), as well as management capabilities and data link situational awareness capabilities, on resilient, distributed cloud as well as develop and integrate new data types into the SIGINT Sensor Data Ingest (SSDI) capability. - Continue to develop and integrate cyber security mandates - Start computer vision platform for high altitude imagery object re-identification

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 48.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 53.2 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 674826

- [Mission Data Services](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0305208F/674826/a5) — FY2027 17.3
- [Ops Integration and Transformation (OI&T)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0305208F/674826/a6) — FY2027 14.0
- Network Infrastructure Transformation — FY2027 0.9
- GEOINT Transformation-1 — FY2027 0.0
- SIGINT Transformation-1 — FY2027 0.0
- Multi-Intelligence-1 — FY2027 0.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0305208F project 674826 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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