# Project 675265 — Common Imagery Processor (CIP)

**Program element:** 0305240F — ISR Transport and Processing  
**Project:** 675265  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force  
**Appropriation:** 3600 — RDT&E, Air Force  
**Budget Activity:** 7 — Operational System Development  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0305240F/675265  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0305240F

## Summary

Project 675265 — Common Imagery Processor (CIP) requests $28.7M in FY2027, 9.2% of the $312.0M requested for program element 0305240F, up 2.8% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 28.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 27.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 28.7 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 29.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 30.3 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 30.9 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 31.5 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0305240F; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 675265 buys

The Imagery Processing effort develops the Virtual Imagery Processing Capability (VIP-C) within the Air Force ISR Transport and Processing (Formerly DCGS) architecture. Current efforts include further developing the virtual software capability to enhance processing performance while decreasing latency across the enterprise and testing, development, and demonstrations integrating updated and new/emerging air and space based sensors into the DAF Battle Network. In addition, the project involves improving the Machine Assisted Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Exploitation (MAGE) capability to employ advanced technologies, automation, and augmentation at speed and scale to close the gap between image collection and actionable intelligence. Efforts within this PE align with USAF investment in the Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) (0604003F), Tech Transition - Air (0604858F), and Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (AF DCGS) (0305208F) to deliver the Long-Range Fires architecture for the DAF BATTLE NETWORK. Program RDT&E funding may be utilized to implement innovation insertion, capability insertion, software increments, spiral upgrades, modular component swaps, and other insertions consistent with Modular Open System Architecture. Program RDT&E funding may be utilized to design, develop, integrate, and test weapon system and/or component level open architectures. Program RDT&E funding may be utilized to fund the concept refinement, design, development, integration, and testing of interdependent technologies and common architectures that underpin weapon system and portfolio-wide mission outcomes. 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.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imagery Processor | 28.5 | 27.9 | 28.7 | +3% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0305240F/675265/a0) |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Imagery Processor

- Will continue to upgrade VIP-C to enable better geo-coordinate accuracy, facilitate automated intelligence discovery, integrate new algorithms, and reduce processing latency. This includes developing and integrating ISR data into a Cloud storefront infrastructure enhancing user interface and facilitating accelerated system security…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0305240F/675265/a0

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0305240F.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0305240F project 675265 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0305240F")`.

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