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RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

International Intelligence Technology and Arc

PE 0305600F·U.S. Air Force·Approp. 3600 — RDT&E·BA7 — Operational System Development
FY2027 Request
$62.0M
⚑ Contested — House approps cuts 17%
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U.S. Air Force funding ramps 227% to a $62.0M request in FY2027 — the program's peak, with nothing planned by FY2031. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators cut 17% (to $51.2M).

FY2027 Request
$62.0M
▲ 227% vs FY2026
House approps mark
$51.2M
▼ $10.8M vs request
FY2026 Enacted
$18.9M
In law

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Air Force is requesting $62.0M for International Intelligence Technology and Arc under RDT&E program element 0305600F, up 227% over FY2026. In the FY2027 defense authorization, House approps moved to cut it to $51.2M.

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.

2550017.8FY25ACTUAL18.9FY26ENACTED62.0FY27REQUEST0.0FY280.0FY290.0FY300.0FY31HOUSE APPROPS
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP) House approps mark
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual17.8
FY2026Enacted18.9
FY2027Request62.0
FY2028Outyear0.0
FY2029Outyear0.0
FY2030Outyear0.0
FY2031Outyear0.0
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 0305600F

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 227% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project 675898

International Intelligence Technology and Arc

$62.0MFY2027 request ▲ 227%
FY2025 actual$17.8M
FY2026 enacted$18.9M
FY2027 request$62.0M
Product Development

International Intelligence Technology and Architectures (IITA) investment in RDT&E ceases support in development to oversee, manage, and provide the United States (US) component of the multi-national Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation Systems (BICES) with a collaborative environment and intelligence sharing enterprise required for processing and disseminating critical intelligence information between and among US, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), allied and coalition forces. Resources in FY27 support classified activities and are provided on a higher network. 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
International Intelligence Technology and Architectures▲ 227%
FY2025 actual$17.8M
FY2026 enacted$18.9M
FY2027 request$62.0M

International Intelligence Technology and Architectures (IITA) investment in RDT&E ceases support in development to oversee, manage, and provide the United States (US) component of the multi-national Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation Systems (BICES) with a collaborative environment and intelligence sharing enterprise…

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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
$62.0M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$62.0M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$62.0M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$51.2M −$10.8M · −17%
▲ $10.8M chamber gap — 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.

Where FY2027 funding flowsShare$M
Other / unspecified100%62.0
FY2027 request100%62.0
Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

International Intelligence Technology and Architectures (IITA) investment in RDT&E ceases support in development to oversee, manage, and provide the United States (US) component of the multi-national Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation Systems (BICES) with a collaborative environment and intelligence sharing enterprise required for processing and disseminating critical intelligence information between and among US, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), allied and coalition forces. Resources in FY27 support classified activities and are provided on a higher network.

(U) Resources in FY27 support classified activities and are provided on a higher network.

Project 675898 — International Intelligence Technology and Arc
  • Product Development
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Sources
FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0305600F (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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