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RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

AF JWICS Enterprise

PE 0305249F·U.S. Air Force·Approp. 3600 — RDT&E·BA7 — Operational System Development
FY2027 Request
$19.3M
◆ Scaling +44%
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U.S. Air Force funding ramps 44% to a $19.3M 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. NASIC leads the industry work.

FY2027 Request
$19.3M
▲ 44% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$13.4M
▲ 42% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$9.4M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Air Force is requesting $19.3M for AF JWICS Enterprise under RDT&E program element 0305249F, up 44% 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.

09.4FY25ACTUAL13.4FY26ENACTED19.3FY27REQUEST20.3FY2821.3FY2924.0FY3024.5FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual9.4
FY2026Enacted13.4
FY2027Request19.3
FY2028Outyear20.3
FY2029Outyear21.3
FY2030Outyear24.0
FY2031Outyear24.5
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 0305249F

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 44% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project 675307

AF JWICS Enterprise

$19.3MFY2027 request ▲ 44%
FY2025 actual$9.4M
FY2026 enacted$13.4M
FY2027 request$19.3M
Product DevelopmentTest and Evaluation

The AF JWICS Enterprise PE provides funds for the modernization, development, procurement, and sustainment of the Air Force SCI enterprise. ICAM - Identity, Credentialing and Access Management (ICAM) includes the foundational identity elements that manage users, credentials, attributes, and the access risk based upon the sensitivity of the resources being protected. ICAM is foundational to Zero Trust and is not a single process or technology but a complex set of systems and services that operate under various policies and organizations. IC-ITE - IC-ITE mission is enabling greater integration, information sharing, and safeguarding with the Intelligence Community (IC) by adopting IC standards, data, and technology frameworks, and using systems of common concern for unmatched decision advantage.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
JTIM
FY2025 actual$7.0M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request—

FY2026 to FY2027 change This money has been adjusted back to the Combat Air Intelligence Systems (CAIS) program element (PE). It was erroneously programmed into 0305249F when the PE was created. Further information on the JTIM effort can be found under the 0207431F R-Doc.

FY2026 plans — current year This money has been adjusted back to the Combat Air Intelligence Systems (CAIS) program element (PE). It was erroneously programmed into 0305249F when the PE was created. Further information on the JTIM effort can be found under the 0207431F R-Doc.

ACC IC-ITE Development▲ 12%
FY2025 actual$2.5M
FY2026 enacted$1.9M
FY2027 request$2.2M

FY2027 planned work Continues with funding research, development and delivery of critical data capabilities as well as drives the creation and integration of new processes in Data Engineering, Ontologies, Semantics, Taxonomies, and Data Architecture to support Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).

FY2026 to FY2027 change Minor adjustments due to inflation.

FY2026 plans — current year Continues with funding research, development and delivery of critical data capabilities as well as drives the creation and integration of new processes in Data Engineering, Ontologies, Semantics, Taxonomies, and Data Architecture to support Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).

NASIC Funds▲ 50%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$11.5M
FY2027 request$17.2M

Development of the ICAM solution with a focus on adding authorization drivers for denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited impact environment and special access program networks, drivers for JADE (another authA capability), advancing the resolution service, performance tuning, outstanding feature requests taken from the product…

Read the FY2027 plan →
Congressional action

Congressional marks

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

RequestPresident's Budget
$19.3M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$19.3M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$19.3M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$19.3M 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.

NASIC
$17.2M · 89%
ICAM · CPFF
ACC
$2.2M · 11%
IC-ITE · FFP
Where FY2027 funding flowsShare$M
Industry primes100%19.3
FY2027 request100%19.3
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Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

The AF JWICS Enterprise PE provides funds for the modernization, development, procurement, and sustainment of the Air Forces SCI enterprise. ICAM - Identity, credentialing and Access Management (ICAM) includes the foundational identity elements that manage users, credentials, attributes, and the access risk based upon the sensitivity of the resources being protected. ICAM is foundational to Zero Trust and is not a single process or technology, but is a complex set of systems and services that operate under various policies and organizations.

Contract type and strategy will be assessed each year. Currently use a mix of contracts to include cost plus fixed fee, cost plus award fee, and fixed price.

Project 675307 — AF JWICS Enterprise
  • Product Development
  • Test and Evaluation
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FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0305249F (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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