# Project 625315 — C4I Dominance Technology **Program element:** 0602788F — Dominant Information Sciences and Methods **Project:** 625315 **Component:** U.S. Air Force **Appropriation:** 3600 — RDT&E, Air Force **Budget Activity:** 2 — Applied Research **Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027 **Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602788F/625315 **Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602788F ## Summary Project 625315 — C4I Dominance Technology requests $95.2M in FY2027, 64% of the $149.2M requested for program element 0602788F, down 46% on FY2026. 6 R-2A activities decompose the request. ## Funding profile | Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($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 | > Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0602788F; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them. ## 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). ## Activities (R-2A) — 6 | Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | Multi-Domain Exploitation and Decision Support | 0.0 | 39.6 | 29.4 | −26% | [a1](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602788F/625315/a1) | | Combined Joint All-Domain Command & Control (CJADC2) | 22.0 | 30.7 | 28.6 | −7% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602788F/625315/a0) | | Assured Communications & Networks | 21.6 | 31.8 | 28.3 | −11% | [a2](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602788F/625315/a2) | | Quantum Information Science | 10.9 | 12.7 | 8.9 | −30% | — | | Data to Decisions | 20.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | — | | Processing Technologies | 7.4 | 0.0 | 0.0 | — | — | > Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it. ### Multi-Domain Exploitation and Decision Support - 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… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602788F/625315/a1 ### Combined Joint All-Domain Command & Control (CJADC2) - 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… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602788F/625315/a0 ### Assured Communications & Networks - 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… Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602788F/625315/a2 ### Quantum Information Science **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 & exploitation, cryptography, and materials science; to gain a strategic advantage against peer adversaries. - Complete the research to advance development of further reducing Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) of network node demonstrations to provide an increase in deployability & scalability for warfighter systems & platforms and improves cost effectiveness. - Complete the demonstration of quantum information processing on a single chip by using developed quantum photonics processor with photon sources to enhance stability by minimizing interference leading to more robust quantum states and provides the potential for more cost-effective quantum information science technologies for the DAF and DoW. - Complete research and development of quantum photonic integrated circuits for transmission/node operation to advance the quantum communication and computation required to develop a robust quantum network and modular quantum computers. - Complete research into designs for network architecture and connectivity to develop a high-fidelity quantum network. - Commence and complete the research towards developing a mobile ad-hoc quantum sensor network to provide substantial increase in sensitivity and precision leading to adaptable, high-performance sensing capabilities in contested environments. Activities include initial research & design of a distributed quantum sensor network for future testing and demonstration activities. ### Data to Decisions **FY2027 planned work.** Not applicable **FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Not applicable **FY2026 plans — current year.** Not applicable ### Processing Technologies **FY2027 planned work.** Not applicable **FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Not applicable **FY2026 plans — current year.** Not applicable ## What is NOT on this page Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602788F. ## Source & machine access - **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0602788F project 625315 (PB PB2027). - **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0602788F")`. *HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. Department of Defense. Budget figures are requests/estimates, not obligations.*