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RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Joint Staff Office of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer

PE 0305248J·Defense-Wide·Approp. 0400 — RDT&E·BA6 — RDT&E Management Support
FY2027 Request
$67.0M
⚑ Contested — House approps cuts 6.5%
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Defense-Wide funding ramps 365% to a $67.0M 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 cut 6.5% (to $62.7M).

FY2027 Request
$67.0M
▲ 365% vs FY2026
House approps mark
$62.7M
▼ $4.4M vs request
FY2026 Enacted
$14.4M
In law

For fiscal year 2027, Defense-Wide agencies are requesting $67.0M for Joint Staff Office of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer under RDT&E program element 0305248J, up 365% over FY2026. In the FY2027 defense authorization, House approps moved to cut it to $62.7M.

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.

255075012.5FY25ACTUAL14.4FY26ENACTED67.0FY27REQUEST79.3FY2881.6FY2983.1FY3085.5FY31HOUSE APPROPS
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP) House approps mark
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual12.5
FY2026Enacted14.4
FY2027Request67.0
FY2028Outyear79.3
FY2029Outyear81.6
FY2030Outyear83.1
FY2031Outyear85.5
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 6 — RDT&E Management Support.

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 0305248J

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 365% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project 001

Joint Staff Dashboard / CJCS Decision Support Capabilities

$67.0MFY2027 request ▲ 365%
FY2025 actual$12.5M
FY2026 enacted$14.4M
FY2027 request$67.0M

Data and analytics are the foundation necessary to create the critical data-driven applications and artificial intelligence (AI) systems needed to build enduring advantages for the Joint Force to remain competitive with pacing adversaries. However, recent events have demonstrated that the DoW’s capabilities in data, analytics, and AI need further development. Specifically, for the Joint Staff (JS), this means developing and testing JS-specific software applications (use cases) to achieve the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s (CJCS) and the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s (VCJCS) requirement for Senior Leader Decision Support Capabilities. The CJCS has a statutory responsibility to provide military advice to the President, the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council, and the Secretary of War. These decision support capabilities and the associated dashboard interface directly support the CJCS’s military advice through interaction with integrated, real-time authoritative data, enabling data-driven decision making.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Joint Staff Dashboard / CJCS Decision Support Capabilities▲ 365%
FY2025 actual$12.5M
FY2026 enacted$14.4M
FY2027 request$67.0M

Sustain efforts established in FY 2025-2026 along the stated Lines of Effort. Over time, additional use cases will be added to support a comprehensive, cross-directorate Dashboard capability: 1. LOE 1: Digitizing and automating workflows and analytics for the Secretary of War Digital Orders Book (DOB), Defense Readiness Module (DRM)…

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Congressional action

The request is contested

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

RequestPresident's Budget
$67.0M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$67.0M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$67.0M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$62.7M −$4.4M · −6.5%
▲ $4.4M chamber gap — unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

Provides funds for the operation and support of activities directly related to the JS OCDAO mission to enable digital modernization efforts across the JS. This includes concept refinement, technology/system development, hardware/ software requirements, training, experimentation and other activities necessary for OCDAO to facilitate the linkages and integration of authoritative data flows between the JS, Combatant Commands (CCMDs), Services, and Office of the Secretary of War (OSW) to achieve decision advantage.

Project 001 — Joint Staff Dashboard / CJCS Decision Support Capabilities
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FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0305248J (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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