# C2IMERA — Program Element 0305836F

**Program element:** 0305836F  
**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/0305836F

## Summary

U.S. Air Force funding falls 17% to a $11.4M request in FY2027 (down from a FY2026 peak), 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. Leidos leads the industry work.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 13.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 11.6 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 11.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 12.1 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 12.3 |

> Estimate types are not summed — the profile mixes actuals, enacted law, the request, and outyear projections.

## Congressional marks (FY2027)

| Stage | Marked ($M) | Change ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| Request | 11.4 | — |
| House NDAA (HASC) | 11.4 | +0.0 |
| Senate NDAA (SASC) | 11.4 | +0.0 |
| House Approps (HAC-D) | 11.4 | +0.0 |

> FY2027 NDAA authorization marks, as of 2026-07-27. Not appropriations or final law.

## Projects (1)

| Project | Title | FY2025 actual | FY2026 enacted | FY2027 request | Move |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 675219 | C2IMERA | 0.0 | 13.7 | 11.4 | −17% |

> Projects are the summable leaves: the program element total is their sum, never added to it.

### Project 675219 — C2IMERA

This budget line funds the development of the Command and Control, Incident Management, Emergency Response Application (C2IMERA), a C2 system that enables commanders and staff to generate and present ready forces to combatant commanders at tactical, operational, and strategic levels. C2IMERA funds provide enhanced installation C2 that improves decision speed, quality, and lethality by incorporating direct user inputs, connecting people to information, automating daily operations, and integrating data from myriad systems into real-time, interactive Common Operating Picture (COP) with visualized dashboards. C2IMERA enables mission-ready units of action to support Agile Combat Employment by effectively linking combat wings and base commands, enabling bases to successfully operate during competition, crisis, and conflict. C2IMERA synchronizes information across large scale exercises and operations through the implementation of a COP and tool that streamlines daily operations and reporting. C2IMERA aggregates the theater-wide critical information into strategic and operational pictures that enable Higher Headquarters (HHQ) to make real-time force decisions across the competition continuum. C2IMERA accelerates decision makers' access to C2 information by providing automated updates through the COP/email and alleviating the need for unnecessary briefings, meetings, and radio communication(s). The C2IMERA operational concept has three capability areas: • C2 collaboration across the Wing, enabling the base to operate and fight • Wing Situational Awareness, enabling the wing to integrate across operations • Wing Collaboration/reporting to HHQ (i.e., Air Operations Center (AOC), the Air Force Forces (AFFOR), Command Center etc.), enabling high-quality operational and strategic decision making Requirements also include supporting base operations, mission management and monitoring, HHQ Information Exchange Requirements (IERs), Emergency Action Messaging, Situation Report (SITREP) automation, and other key enablers supporting the operational concept.

**Named R-3 performers** (share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total, so they need not reach 100%)**:** Leidos (9.5, 83%), 96th Test Wing (0.2, 1.6%).

| Activity (R-2A) | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Command and Control, Incident Management, Emergency Response Application (C2IMERA) | 0.0 | 13.7 | 11.4 |

> R-2A activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. Coverage is partial, so count them, never total them.

## Where the FY2027 request goes

| Category | Share | $M |
|---|---|---|
| Industry primes | 85% | 9.7 |
| Other / unspecified | 15% | 1.7 |

**Top named industry performers:** Leidos ($9.5M, 83%).

> R-3 exhibit contract funding, not USAspending obligations.

## Mission & acquisition strategy

This budget line funds the development of the Command and Control, Incident Management, Emergency Response Application (C2IMERA), a C2 system that enables commanders and staff to generate and present ready forces to combatant commanders at tactical, operational, and strategic levels. C2IMERA funds provide enhanced installation C2 that improves decision speed, quality, and lethality by incorporating direct user inputs, connecting people to information, automating daily operations, and integrating data from myriad systems into real-time, interactive Common Operating Picture (COP) with visualized dashboards.

Using Software Acquisition Pathway (SWP), the acquisition strategy builds agile software engineering methodologies and modernization of existing capabilities utilizing evolutionary acquisition. Timelines are reduced by modularizing both software engineering solutions and the associated contracting and funding strategies. This enables dynamic resource allocation based on current warfighter needs. The desired end state is continuous delivery of software. This program is dependent on support from the All Domain Common Platform (ADCP). Program management for the C2IMERA program is under direction of Portfolio Acquisition Executive (PAE) Command, Control, Communication & Battle Management C3BM, located at Hanscom AFB, MA.

## Related program elements

- [0305015F — Applications Development](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0305015F) (Air Force)
- [0207431F — Combat Air Intelligence System Activities](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0207431F) (Air Force)
- [0604760A — Distributive Interactive Simulations (DIS) - Eng Dev](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604760A) (Army)
- [0304797N — (u)undersea Artificial Intel/machine Learning](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0304797N) (Navy)

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-3, PE 0305836F (PB PB2027); FY2027 NDAA committee marks (as of 2026-07-27).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0305836F")`.

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