# Architecture and Systems Engineering (ASE) and Operational Response Team (ORT)

**R-2A activity** of project 640141 — Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS)  
**Program element:** 0604003F — Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS)  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force · **Budget Activity:** 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604003F/640141/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604003F

## Summary

This activity requests $95.1M in FY2027, 9.1% of project 640141, up 9.5% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** 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.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** 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

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 67.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 86.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 95.1 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 640141

- [C3BM Digital Infrastructure (DI)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604003F/640141/a1) — FY2027 228.7
- [C3BM Software and Applications](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604003F/640141/a2) — FY2027 198.3
- [C3BM Airborne Connectivity (AC)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604003F/640141/a3) — FY2027 194.5
- [Deployable Systems](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604003F/640141/a4) — FY2027 146.2
- [Program Management, Systems Engineering, and Test & Evaluation Support](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604003F/640141/a6) — FY2027 105.3
- [DAF Integrated Fires C2](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604003F/640141/a5) — FY2027 72.8

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0604003F project 640141 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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