What project 329 buys
The Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) conducts analysis in support of ongoing efforts to shape and counter emerging threats, with special emphasis on innovative and architecture-level concepts, cross-Service and cross-Defense/Intelligence concepts, red-teaming, and on a case-by-case basis, research and development projects to demonstrate new concepts. SCO identifies, analyzes, and accelerates the development, demonstration, and transition of selected capabilities to shape and counter emerging threats, and to improve U.S. security posture. In a partnership endeavor across the Office of the Secretary of War (OSW), Joint Staff, Combatant Commands (CCMDs), the Services, the Intelligence Community (IC), and other U.S. Government agencies, SCO combines capability innovation with concepts of operation to develop novel, high-leverage approaches to address pressing national security challenges. SCO conducts projects on accelerated timelines, at any classification or access level. The Advanced Innovative Analysis and Concepts program supports development, study, and analysis of integrated concepts and prototypes, analysis in support of ongoing efforts to shape and counter emerging threats, cross-Service and cross-Defense/Intelligence concepts, and red-teaming. Projects focus on proving component and subsystem maturity prior to integration in major systems and may involve risk reduction initiatives. Due to the nature of these projects, specific applications and detailed plans are available at a higher classification level.
Project 329 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 | 52.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 56.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 52.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 53.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 54.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 55.4 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 55.4 |
3 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. 2 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.
Conduct modeling and simulation, mission engineering, and technical and operational analysis aligned to high priority operational problems. Focus areas for FY 2027 analysis include integrated air and missile defense, long range kill chains, and counter long range kill chains. Analysis will inform current and future SCO and Department of…
Read the FY2027 plan →Conduct formulation and risk reduction for five to six projects reviewed by the Cross Functional Teams and proposed to begin 6.4 work in FY 2027.
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2026 to FY2027 change SBIR and STTR amounts are based on enacted budgets.
FY2026 plans — current year Funding will be transferred to the Department's SBIR and STTR programs in the year of execution.
FY2025 accomplishments Funding will be transferred to the Department's SBIR and STTR programs in the year of execution.