What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 640141 of PE 0604003F. 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.
Thrust 1a Mission Domain Architectures (MDA) and Mission Integration Team (MITs): -Operational Analysis: Continue to build models and provide mission value metrics for C3BM decisions. Invest in longer-lead modeling to enable rapid responsiveness to Mission Integration Team priorities set annually in consultation with C3BM Enterprise stakeholders. -Architecture Modeling: Continue to model interfaces and interactions for specified mission areas. Build team to support DAF programs, and OSD/Joint Staff on standards for integration. -System Engineering: Continue to develop and manage artifacts in the DE environment related to tracking interfaces, roadmaps and progress. -Risk Reduction: Continue to hold community-wide enterprise risk reviews yearly with different communities (operators, S&T, Tech Advisors, cyber) and manage enduring risk register and provide senior leader products. -Test and Evaluation: Continue to analyze artifacts to test mission area architecture. -Digital Engineering (DE): Continue to leverage, or create as necessary, a common DE approach and methodology for all the Mission Integration Teams to aggregate and analyze various cross-functional and cross-domain data products, and to then make them available to the C3BM Enterprise. Fund Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) at all security levels for all ASE and DAF/OSD/Joint partners. This environment supports government sensitive C3BM and Joint partner planning and integration efforts. This DE environment is fully complementary to analogous contractor-led ABMS DE efforts. Continue to develop Modeling & Simulation capabilities to enable evaluation of C3BM systems virtually via software digital twins. Thrust 1b Operational Response Team (ORT): -Prototype Integration and Experimentation: Continue operational integration and experimentation of digital tactical edge connectivity prototypes and aid their transition to C3BM Digital Infrastructure for further development. -Continue to prototype and experiment Deployable DI mobile solutions that provide multi-level security compute and storage able to host mission data, data management software, and mission applications at deployed C2 nodes. Support identification, orchestration, "shepherding” and potential investment in emergent C3BM technologies. Rapidly develop and execute experimentation and prototyping activities in support of ASE findings to mitigate risks or exploit opportunity identified during mission engineering or architecture development work. -C3BM Vignette Analysis: Perform electromagnetic battle management (EMBM) numerical analysis, modeling, and simulation to assess impact of specific capabilities on advanced kill chains and protection of forward deployed assets in order to prioritize DAF investments in relevant architecture and battle management capabilities. -Experimentation and operational engagement with emerging Battle Management tools.
Funding increases in FY 2027 due to furthered efforts in architecture development to ensure the technical integrity of the system of systems integration cross-cutting air, space, maritime, land, and homeland defense domains to integrate the DAF BATTLE NETWORK. Furthermore, integrated digital environment (IDE) efforts continue to scale across all 6 MITs in FY27 to provide a consistent engineering authoritative source of truth across all five MITs to enable development of C2 modeling and simulation (M&S) frameworks to support integrated modeling.
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.
Thrust 1a Mission Domain Architectures (MDA) and Mission Integration Team (MITs): -Operational Analysis: Continue to build models and provide mission value metrics for C3BM decisions. Invest in longer-lead modeling to enable rapid responsiveness to Mission Integration Team priorities set annually in consultation with C3BM Enterprise stakeholders. -Architecture Modeling: Continue to model interfaces and interactions for specified mission areas. Build team to support DAF programs, and OSD/Joint Staff on standards for integration. -System Engineering: Continue to develop and manage artifacts in the DE environment related to tracking interfaces, roadmaps and progress. -Risk Reduction: Continue to hold community-wide enterprise risk reviews yearly with different communities (operators, S&T, Tech Advisors, cyber) and manage enduring risk register and provide senior leader products. -Test and Evaluation: Continue to analyze artifacts to test mission area architecture. - Digital Engineering (DE): Continue to leverage, or create as necessary, a common DE approach and methodology for all the Mission Integration Teams to aggregate and analyze various cross-functional and cross-domain data products, and to then make them available to the C3BM Enterprise. Fund Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) at all security levels for all ASE and DAF/OSD/Joint partners. This environment supports government sensitive C3BM and Joint partner planning and integration efforts. This DE environment is fully complementary to analogous contractor-led ABMS DE efforts. Continue to develop Modeling & Simulation capabilities to enable evaluation of C3BM systems virtually via software digital twins. Thrust 1b Operational Response Team (ORT): -Prototype Integration and Experimentation: Continue operational integration and experimentation of digital tactical edge connectivity prototypes and aid their transition to C3BM Digital Infrastructure for further development. -Continue to prototype and experiment Deployable DI mobile solutions that provide multi-level security compute and storage able to host mission data, data management software, and mission applications at deployed C2 nodes. Support identification, orchestration, "shepherding” and potential investment in emergent C3BM technologies. Rapidly develop and execute experimentation and prototyping activities in support of ASE findings to mitigate risks or exploit opportunity identified during mission engineering or architecture development work. -C3BM Vignette Analysis: Perform electromagnetic battle management (EMBM) numerical analysis, modeling, and simulation to assess impact of specific capabilities on advanced kill chains and protection of forward deployed assets in order to prioritize DAF investments in relevant architecture and battle management capabilities. -Experimentation and operational engagement with emerging Battle Management tools.
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 | 67.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 86.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 95.1 |
This activity is 9.1% of project 640141's FY2027 request and 9.1% of PE 0604003F'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.
7 activities in project 640141
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.