What project 625315 buys
This project executes mission-driven applied research to advance the critical technologies supporting Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I), a core enabler of operational effectiveness across the Department of the Air Force (DAF). Activities under this project accelerate the development of next-generation capabilities to ensure time-dominant decision-making, enable synchronized multi-domain operations, and provide reliable, cyber-secure communications in contested environments. Additionally, these efforts advance high-speed computing and data analytics to support real-time intelligence processing and information fusion, which are essential to operational readiness and the successful implementation of Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2).
Project 625315 funding, 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. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 82.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 176.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 95.2 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 93.6 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 116.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 120.1 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 122.5 |
6 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. 3 of them describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
- Continue research and development of tactical platforms in concert with space-based simulation software to develop a comprehensive sensing grid orchestrator to optimize orchestration of available tactical and space resources for extended custody of targets in highly contested environments. Activities include development of a strategic…
Read the FY2027 plan →- Continue development of standards that will be used to create an end-to-end (Australia, United Kingdom, and United States) joint machine learning ecosystem for the rapid development, sharing, and deployment of machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) tools to enable joint AI missions for nation and coalition operational…
Read the FY2027 plan →- Continue research and development of a wireless communications system operating at frequencies above 100 GHz (terahertz band) to provide low probability of detection (LPD) and anti-jam (AJ) properties for communications in contested environments. Activities include continuing testing and verifying advanced model-based design and…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work - Continue research and analysis into designs for network architecture & connectivity and advanced network node operation. To provide a ultra-secure quantum network for contested environments. Activities include continuing the testing the network with a background free state detection to acquire more accurate signal measurements; manipulate trapped-ion with quantum photonic integrated circuit (QPIC) to measure and scale future network development.
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 funding decreased compared to FY 2026 by $3.812 million due to re-prioritization to meet the nation's future security needs and completion of research towards developing a mobile ad-hoc quantum sensor network, in the area of extreme computing and quantum computing information sciences, advancing development of further reducing Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) of network node demonstrations, demonstrating quantum information processing on a single chip, quantum photonic integrated circuits for transmission/node operation, designs for network architecture and connectivity.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue research and analysis into designs for network architecture & connectivity and advanced network node operation to provide an ultra-secure quantum network for contested environments. Activities include testing the network with a background-free state detection to acquire more accurate signal measurements; manipulate trapped-ion with quantum photonic integrated circuit (QPIC) to measure and scale future network development. - Complete in-house research and development in the area of extreme computing and quantum computing information sciences to enhance extreme computing by increasing the speed of processing to revolutionize areas important to the DAF including data analysis &…
FY2027 planned work Not applicable
FY2026 to FY2027 change Not applicable
FY2026 plans — current year Not applicable
FY2027 planned work Not applicable
FY2026 to FY2027 change Not applicable
FY2026 plans — current year Not applicable