RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Mobile Command Center Systems (MC2S)

PE 0305903F·U.S. Air Force·Approp. 3600 — RDT&E·BA7 — Operational System Development
FY2027 Request
$2.0M
Air Force · RDT&E
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U.S. Air Force funding falls 49% to a $2.0M 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.

FY2027 Request
$2.0M
▼ 49% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$4.0M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Air Force is requesting $2.0M for Mobile Command Center Systems (MC2S) under RDT&E program element 0305903F, down 49% from 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.

00.0FY25ACTUAL4.0FY26ENACTED2.0FY27REQUEST2.0FY282.0FY292.0FY302.0FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual0.0
FY2026Enacted4.0
FY2027Request2.0
FY2028Outyear2.0
FY2029Outyear2.0
FY2030Outyear2.0
FY2031Outyear2.0
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 0305903F

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 -49% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project 673247

Mobile Command Center Systems (MC2S)

$2.0MFY2027 request ▼ 49%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$4.0M
FY2027 request$2.0M
Product Development

MC2S is a mobile platform that provides Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) services to USNORTHCOM in support of its Defense Support to Civil Authorities (DSCA) mission. Additional details can be provided at a higher classification. Mobile Command Control Systems (MC2S) - funding enables the development of solutions for the emerging requirements necessary for continuous operations, maintenance and sustainment. 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. . 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
Mobile Command Center Systems (MC2S)▼ 49%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$4.0M
FY2027 request$2.0M

FY2027 planned work MC2S will conduct 1-2 program development studies addressing two program 1067s and a high COCOM priority. Conduct studies on zero-power loss and automated start-up. The studies will drive a re-architecture of the platform requiring future development.

FY2026 to FY2027 change Decrease funding from FY2026 to FY2027 due to one time 3600 investment MC2S futures study.

FY2026 plans — current year MC2S will conduct a CAPE directed future study as a follow on to the NC3 Trade Space study.

Congressional action

Congressional marks

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

RequestPresident's Budget
$2.0M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$2.0M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$2.0M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$2.0M 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.

Where FY2027 funding flowsShare$M
Other / unspecified100%2.0
FY2027 request100%2.0
Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

MC2S is a mobile platform that provides Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) services to USNORTHCOM in support of its Defense Support to Civil Authorities (DSCA) mission. Additional details can be provided at a higher classification. Mobile Command Control Systems (MC2S) - funding enables the development of solutions for the emerging requirements necessary for continuous operations, maintenance and sustainment. 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.

The acquisition strategy will re-architect battle management and communication capabilities leveraging agile software/hardware engineering solutions and modification of existing capabilities to standardize weapons system. Additional details can be provided at a higher classification.

Project 673247 — Mobile Command Center Systems (MC2S)
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FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0305903F (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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