# Project 124 — Advanced Analysis and Capability Development

**Program element:** 0603142D8Z — Mission Engineering and Integration (ME&I)  
**Project:** 124  
**Component:** Defense-Wide  
**Appropriation:** 0400 — RDT&E, Defense-Wide  
**Budget Activity:** 3 — Advanced Technology Development  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603142D8Z/124  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603142D8Z

## Summary

Project 124 — Advanced Analysis and Capability Development requests $49.9M in FY2027, 35% of the $144.5M requested for program element 0603142D8Z, down 19% on FY2026. 5 R-2A activities decompose the request.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 90.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 61.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 49.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 50.3 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 50.9 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 56.5 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 58.0 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0603142D8Z; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 124 buys

Advanced Analysis and Capability Development (A2CD): Continues the execution of advanced analysis under the JLE initiative and development and use of an advanced hardware, software, and Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information/Special Access Program (TS/SCI/SAP) network architecture to conduct fully informed analysis, experimentation, and process improvement to accelerate the Department’s capability development and fielding efforts. Effort focuses on two areas. 1. Joint Lethality Engineering (JLE) (formerly designated as Advanced Concept Development): Research and analysis efforts to solve specific critical military challenges and drive Department investment decisions that enhance the effectiveness of systems against adversarial threats. Activities span across all security levels, domains, and Service warfighting architectures. Additional classified information available upon request. (**FY 2026 only; in FY 2027 realigning to MDJO PE 0604791D8Z) 2. Joint Capability Development Environment (JCDE): Advanced Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Technology and Tool Development and Modeling and Simulation Big Play – have been consolidated into an effort entitled Joint Capability Development Environment (JCDE) to provide a more unified and efficient development approach, afforded by previous accomplishments; advances in fully informed, all domain modeling and simulation (M&S) capabilities; and improved analysis and experimentation methods. JCDE provides a hardware, software, and TS/SCI/SAP network architecture designed to accelerate the Department’s ability to conduct rapid capability development and fielding. The JCDE provides industry, the DoW, FFRDC/UARCs, and international partners access to advanced modeling and simulation (M&S) tools and a multi-level security (MLS) enabled data/knowledge repository to enable rigorous, rapid analysis and experimentation in support of capability development and military utility analysis and experimentation. The JCDE also includes a development environment that enables the continuous creation and improvement of advanced M&S tools and corresponding analysis/experimentation processes.

## Activities (R-2A) — 5

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joint Capability Development Environment (JCDE) | — | 52.2 | 49.9 | −5% | [a3](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603142D8Z/124/a3) |
| Joint Lethality Engineering (formerly designated as Advanced Concept Development) | 19.3 | 9.5 | 0.0 | −100% | — |
| Advanced Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Technology and Tool Development | 49.5 | 0.0 | — | — | — |
| Modeling and Simulation Big Play | 7.7 | 0.0 | — | — | — |
| Mission Engineering and Integration | 13.6 | — | — | — | — |

> 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.

### Joint Capability Development Environment (JCDE)

• Increase the availability of tools and enhance the performance of the JCDE infrastructure to accommodate new users, expand secure connectivity, deploy to new government and industry sites, and meet growing data processing demands. • Expand the JCDE boundary by integrating with the High-Performance Computing Modernization Program…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603142D8Z/124/a3

### Joint Lethality Engineering (formerly designated as Advanced Concept Development)

**FY2027 planned work.** Starting in FY 2027, Joint Lethality Engineering (JLE) activity (previously Assault Breaker II (ABII)), will be realigned to Multi-Domain Joint Operations (MDJO) (PE 0604791D8Z).

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Decrease reflects activity realignment to MDJO PE 0604791D8Z in FY 2027.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** • Continue JLE initiative focusing on distinct military challenges related to advanced warfighting architectures, operational concepts, and associated capability development. Additional classified information available upon request. • Continue executing the Eloquent Omen (EO) analytic campaign to inform the development of non-kinetic capabilities in a strategically informed way, focused on de-escalation and preserving decision space. Additional classified information available upon request. • Continue fully informed, all-security level, faster-than-real time, theater-wide, multi-domain, sea floor to space mission level analysis to enable the exploration of adaptive Joint warfighting concepts.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** Joint Lethality Engineering Development activities support the following: • Analytic Team: Team of government, Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs) / University-Affiliated Research Centers (UARCs), industry, and Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) personnel will perform analysis that informs near, mid, and far term Joint warfighting concepts that inform capability development recommendations which guide investment strategies. The team is focused on a distinct, relevant military problem and results feed into Technology Modernization Transition Reviews (TMTRs). Additional classified information available upon request. • Eloquent Omen: A strategically informed campaign of analysis that explores the combined use of Joint non-kinetic effects in the period prior to the initiation of armed conflict that is intended to preserve decision space and allow for de-escalation. It will conduct several studies and wargames on an annual basis to inform capability development, process changes, and force structure changes. Additional classified information available upon request.

### Advanced Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Technology and Tool Development

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Not applicable.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Starting in FY 2026, the funding allocated to Advanced Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Technology and Tool Development will be realigned and consolidated into a new project code [within this PE] titled the Joint Capability Development Environment (JCDE) to support an integrated environment between advanced tools and distributed environment.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** Advanced Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Technology and Tool Development supports the following: • Modeling and Simulation Integration Environment (MSIE): This hardware, software, and personnel infrastructure enables the TS/ SCI/SAP Development Security Operations (DevSecOps) environment for creating advanced M&S tools. It includes Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIF) / Special Access Program Facilities (SAPF), a TS/SCI/SAP compute hardware environment, and a team of software developers as well as necessary security personnel. • Secure Advanced Framework for Simulation and Modeling (SAFE-SiM): This provides Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) support for fielding the SAFE-SiM program, which is the core of the program's M&S tool set, and accomplishes three objectives: 1) Meets the need for an integrated architecture that enables all security level, faster-than-real time, theaterwide, multi-domain, seafloor to space mission level analysis to enable the exploration of adaptive Joint warfighting architectures; 2) Supports the rapid conduct of concept development, acquisition trade space exploration, and force structure evaluation in a TS/SCI/SAP environment; 3) Delivers advanced analytic and visualization tools that will support senior-level decision makers, technology developers, and acquisition professionals. The SAFE-SiM tools will transition to the defense analytic community. • Multi-Level Security (MLS): This provides hardware and software solutions that enable the appropriate data protection and access from the UNCLASSIFIED to Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information, Special Access Program (TS/SCI/SAP) levels. This capability is both necessary and integral for SAFE-SiM as well as the Modeling and Simulation Big Play for Defense Research and Engineering (R&E).

### Modeling and Simulation Big Play

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Not applicable.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Starting in FY 2026, the funding allocated to Modeling and Simulation Big Play (M&S Big Play) will be realigned and consolidated into a new project code [within this PE] titled the Joint Capability Development Environment (JCDE) to support an integrated environment between advanced tools and distributed environment.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** Modeling and Simulation Big Play project activities support the following. • Model Repository: This provides an MLS-enabled Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information, Special Access Program (TS/SCI/SAP) hardware and software environment that maintains an accessible repository of information and data to support the Advanced Concept Development effort’s advanced kill web analysis and simulation, with four primary results: 1) Foundational data regarding characteristics, behaviors, and logic flow to support complex warfighting analysis along with executable models for specific modeling and simulation (M&S) environments; 2) Classified models and data derived and produced by government and academic entities, classified and proprietary models and data produced by industry, and models and data derived and produced by partner nations for the purpose of capability development; 3) Integrated model development environment where users can create new models with the potential to expand to support model creation in other M&S environments; 4) Team dedicated to the curation of the data within the model repository to ensure that it remains appropriate and relevant for defense analysis as threat and friendly military capabilities evolve in the face of changing strategic conditions. • Technical Processes: This supports a team of subject matter experts to test, evaluate, and prototype new analytical tools and experiment with new M&S capabilities as well as models and algorithms to assess how they can improve the quality of the analysis done in the environment of tools and processes for the analytic community and transition partners, such as allied nations and multi-lateral organizations. • Classified network: This identifies Multi-Level Security (MLS) enabled, Top Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information, Special Access Program (TS/SCI/SAP) network requirements for government, industry, academia, and multinational partners to access and use the advanced modeling and simulation (M&S) tools and analytic processes developed Advanced M&S Tool and Technology effort as well as the Model Repository to generate both new and pre-existing data, models, and behavior-based scenarios to support analytic efforts.

## 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/0603142D8Z.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0603142D8Z project 124 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0603142D8Z")`.

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