# C3BM Digital Infrastructure (DI)

**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/a1  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604003F

## Summary

This activity requests $228.7M in FY2027, 22% of project 640141, down 19% 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.** Enterprise Engineering Group (EEG): -Continue management of the ABMS Consortium activity comprised of industry partners, FFRDC, and USG stakeholders performing operational analysis, mission analysis, Systems Engineering, and integration of ABMS Digital Infrastructure. -Continue data architecture, data tagging, and data orchestration design solutions and prototypes that enable available data to be exposed, processed, and transferred within multi-level security ABMS cloud environments. -Continue maturing the extension of the ABMS DI to the tactical edge based on operator and ABMS CFT input. -Continue maturing CONUS and OCONUS clouds by adding more data types, data transfers across classification levels, establishing data and network management standards and tools (e.g., SD-WAN), and developing and hosting cloud-native applications (e.g., Cloud-Based C2, advanced targeting tools, air base air defense applications). -Expand locations and content in the collaborative, multi-security-level, enterprise systems engineering ecosystem for architecture and modeling development. -Test and Evaluation: Continue to analyze artifacts to test mission area architecture. ABMS Digital Infrastructure (DI): -Continue to invest in technologies and solutions to expose, transport, and host data and mission/infrastructure software through widely used commercial best practices and techniques such as Application Program Interfaces (APIs) and standardized data fabric solutions. -Continue development and implementation of DI Network Major Releases 1 and 2, including SD-WAN, content delivery, network monitoring and security solutions, data link integration, scalable transport, cross domain solutions, and others. -Continue to develop and implement Deployable, Fixed, and Remote DI Processing Node solutions that provide a multi-level security compute and storage environment able to host mission data, data management software, and mission applications at multiple echelons of command, including tactical and operational C2 nodes. -Continue to support Cloud deployment, Platform as a Service, and Infrastructure as a Service offerings to the DAF BATTLE NETWORK. -Continue to fund efforts related to DI Network and DI Processing Nodes in collaboration with Major Commands, Combatant Commands, Component Major Commands, the ABMS CFT, and C3BM ASE. As operational and technical requirements are refined, ABMS DI will look to accelerate development of acquisition strategies and propel additional efforts into execution. -Test and Evaluation: Continue to analyze artifacts to test mission area architecture. ABMS DI-Network Integration Lab (DI-NIL): -Continue experimentation efforts to accelerate requirements development. -Continue to integrate with and expand connections to Joint Partners. -Continue deployment of ABMS Digital Infrastructure to the DI-NIL. -Prepare to support experimentation for Distributed Battle Management Applications (DBMA) and CBC2+.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** While funding decreases in FY 2027, C3BM DI will continue development, procurement, and implementation of Deployable, Fixed, and Remote DI Processing nodes to tactical and operational C2 echelons of command, cloud, platform, and infrastructure offerings, as well as the integration and deployment of the DI-Network.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Enterprise Engineering Group (EEG): -Continue management of the ABMS Consortium activity comprised of industry partners, FFRDC, and USG stakeholders performing operational analysis, mission analysis, Systems Engineering, and integration of ABMS Digital Infrastructure. -Continue data architecture, data tagging, and data orchestration design solutions and prototypes that enable available data to be exposed, processed, and transferred within multi-level security ABMS cloud environments. -Continue maturing the extension of the ABMS DI to the tactical edge based on operator and ABMS CFT input. -Continue maturing CONUS and OCONUS clouds by adding more data types, data transfers across classification levels, establishing data and network management standards and tools (e.g., SD-WAN), and developing and hosting cloud-native applications (e.g., Cloud-Based C2, advanced targeting tools, air base air defense applications). -Expand locations and content in the collaborative, multi-security-level, enterprise systems engineering ecosystem for architecture and modeling development. -Test and Evaluation: Continue to analyze artifacts to test mission area architecture. ABMS Digital Infrastructure (DI): -Continue to invest in technologies and solutions to expose, transport, and host data and mission/infrastructure software through widely used commercial best practices and techniques such as Application Program Interfaces (APIs) and standardized data fabric solutions. -Continue development and implementation of DI Network Major Releases 1 and 2, including SD-WAN, content delivery, network monitoring and security solutions, data link integration, scalable transport, cross domain solutions, and others. -Continue to develop and implement Deployable, Fixed, and Remote DI Processing Node solutions that provide a multi-level security compute and storage environment able to host mission data, data management software, and mission applications at multiple echelons of command, including tactical and operational C2 nodes. -Continue to support Cloud deployment, Platform as a Service, and Infrastructure as a Service offerings to the DAF BATTLE NETWORK. -Continue to fund efforts related to DI Network and DI Processing Nodes in collaboration with Major Commands, Combatant Commands, Component Major Commands, the ABMS CFT, and C3BM ASE. As operational and technical requirements are refined, ABMS DI will look to accelerate development of acquisition strategies and propel additional efforts into execution. -Test and Evaluation: Continue to analyze artifacts to test mission area architecture. ABMS DI Network Integration Lab (DI-NIL): -Continue experimentation efforts to accelerate requirements development. -Continue to integrate with and expand connections to Joint Partners. -Continue deployment of ABMS Digital Infrastructure to the DI-NIL. -Prepare to support experimentation for Distributed Battle Management Applications (DBMA) and CBC2+.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 235.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 283.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 228.7 |

> 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 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
- [Architecture and Systems Engineering (ASE) and Operational Response Team (ORT)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604003F/640141/a0) — FY2027 95.1
- [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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