What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 630320 of PE 0603032F. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.
- Continue data interoperability and experimentation activities with Air Operations Center weapons system software. - Continue development of software to enable human oversight and modification of system generated air battle plans. - Continue development of software for measuring adversary response against an air battle plan. - Continue participation in military exercises to validate and measure benefits of automation over current manual human planning. - Continue development of automated data transfer into Air Operations Center weapons system to accelerate planning, addressing critical Department of the Air Force process and technology gaps. - Continue data interoperability and experimentation activities with emerging theater air planning system of systems within the DAF BATTLE NETWORK. - Commence maturation and hardening of software for accreditation Program Executive Office (PEO) Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management (C3BM) hosting platforms for transition at end of FY2027. - Commence development of computer-based training and support documentation for system administration for transition to PEO C3BM at end of FY2027.
FY 2027 funding increased compared to FY 2026 by $4.053 million due to maturation and hardening of software and preparing the software for transition to PEO C3BM.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
- Continue data interoperability and experimentation activities with Air Operations Center weapons system software. - Continue development of software to enable human oversight and modification of system generated air battle plans. - Continue development of software for measuring adversary response against an air battle plan. - Continue participation in military exercises to validate and measure benefits of automation over current manual human planning. - Commence development of automated data transfer into Air Operations Center weapons system to accelerate planning, addressing critical Department of the Air Force process and technology gaps. - Commence data interoperability and experimentation activities with emerging theater air planning system of systems within the DAF BATTLE NETWORK.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 7.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 22.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 27.0 |
This activity is 9.6% of project 630320's FY2027 request and 9.6% of PE 0603032F's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.
14 activities in project 630320
Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the program-element page.