What project 635321 buys
This Project supports the Department of the Air Force's (DAF) strategic objectives by advancing cutting-edge research technologies critical for achieving multi-domain superiority and operational agility across the full spectrum of military operations. Specifically, it enables the DAF and DoW to: (1) develop and implement Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) capabilities, ensuring seamless integration across land, air, space, and cyber domains for effective joint decision making, command, and operational execution; (2) field and sustain assured, resilient, and high-capacity communications and networks, providing enduring support for global, persistent, and survivable military operations—both kinetic and non-kinetic—critical to maintaining a strategic advantage and operational continuity in contested environments; and (3) design and deploy advanced systems to process, fuse, and exploit real-time data from diverse sources, empowering decision-makers with enhanced situational awareness and enabling rapid, data-driven decisions to outpace adversaries. Beginning in FY 2027, this Project will support the development and deployment of advanced cyber capabilities to ensure superiority in both offensive and defensive operations, as well as to maintain resilience in contested cyber environments. This will ensure operational continuity and effectiveness of military forces across all domains, both in peacetime and in conflict. This will include: (i) Cyber offense capabilities - enabling access, stealth, and persistence within adversary networks, while leveraging advanced intelligence collection and non-kinetic weapons to disrupt, degrade, or destroy enemy capabilities, ensuring strategic advantage in both peacetime and conflict scenarios. (ii) Cyber defense capabilities - establishing robust defenses to detect, attribute, and respond to cyberattacks, ensuring the integrity of critical systems, networks, and data, while actively mitigating threats and neutralizing adversary attempts to compromise U.S. cyber infrastructure. (iii) Cyber resilience capabilities - developing systems and protocols for rapid adaptation, recovery, and sustained survivability of critical assets and operations, ensuring the DAF can continue to function effectively even in the face of sophisticated and persistent cyber threats.
Project 635321 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 | 44.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 19.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 31.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 34.5 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 35.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 36.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 37.4 |
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. 1 of them describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
- Complete development of 5G cyber operations tool suite for integration into DAF cyber operations platforms, focusing on developing and demonstrating modular, scalable framework. - Complete development of 5G exploitation tools for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and for Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO) capabilities…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work - Complete the development of a rapidly deployable SWaP information management system and development of a capability to support data compression, mission prioritization, & intelligent caching over high and low-capacity data links, focusing on conducting demonstrations with multiple waveforms & networks with operationally relevant data, leveraging the mesh networking concept in disaster recovery settings.- Complete advanced development and demonstration of a framework to analyze and evaluate the impacts of degraded/denied/detected connectivity across multi-domain mission threads utilizing heterogenous links, focusing on building the software environment and links connecting multiple…
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 funding increased compared to FY 2026 by $1.062 million due to increased investments in the development & demonstration of a communications framework, advanced waveform mesh networking, and a low size, weight, and power (SWaP) information management system.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue the development of a rapidly deployable, low size, weight, and power (SWaP) information management system and development of a capability to support data compression, mission prioritization, & intelligent caching over high and low-capacity data links, focusing on conducting demonstrations with multiple waveforms & networks with operationally relevant data, leveraging the mesh networking concept in disaster recovery settings. - Commence advanced development and demonstration of a framework to analyze and evaluate the impacts of degraded/denied/detected connectivity across multi-domain mission threads utilizing heterogenous links, focusing on building the software environment and…
FY2027 planned work - Continue integration of targeting and communications technologies for rapid dynamic targeting of high-mobility enemy threat systems, focusing on interoperability between technologies and developing and demonstrating targeting and automated battle damage assessment (BDA) capabilities. - Complete processing at the edge to securely provide real-time analysis of mission data; deploying artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation to support dynamic mission planning and enhanced situational awareness; focusing on developing and demonstrating an embedded high performance computing system that simultaneously processes Multi-INT data on airborne platforms to autonomously identify and…
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 decreased compared to FY 2026 by $0.732 million due to minor programmatic adjustments to the DAF Science and Technology portfolio.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue integration of targeting and communications technologies for rapid dynamic targeting of high-mobility enemy threat systems, focusing on interoperability between technologies and developing and demonstrating targeting and automated battle damage assessment (BDA) capabilities. - Commence processing at the edge to securely provide real-time analysis of mission data; deploying artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation to support dynamic mission planning and enhanced situational awareness; focusing on developing and demonstrating an embedded high performance computing system that simultaneously processes multiple intelligence (Multi-INT) data on airborne platforms to…
FY2027 planned work - Complete advanced development and demonstration of an AI-enhanced planning capability and battle management architecture at a relevant DAF exercise with operationally relevant data to support a common operational picture for selection, tracking, and deployment of AI capabilities in-mission, focusing on demonstrating speech-to-text models and tactical operations centers in operationally relevant environments. - Commence the advanced development & demonstration of technologies for seamless, reliable, distributed and decentralized all-domain command & control capabilities to support adaptive teaming, large-scale autonomous operations, and AI powered warfare.
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 funding decreased compared to FY 2026 by $1.669 million due to completed investments in the development & demonstration of a triple component system that supports JASSM capabilities, as well as toolkits that enable distributed Air Operations Center (AOC) in an operational theater.
FY2026 plans — current year - Continue advanced development and demonstration of an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced planning capability and battle management architecture at a relevant DAF exercise with operationally relevant data to support a common operational picture for selection, tracking, and deployment of AI capabilities in-mission, focusing on demonstrating speech-to-text models and tactical operations centers in operationally relevant environments. - Complete advanced development and demonstration of a triple component system to support both single Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) and multi-JASSM planning from airborne platforms, including small-scale Standoff Munition Application Center…
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