What project 085 buys
The DIL funding line contains efforts to mature management of DoW operational data and deploy a tactical edge data mesh (EDM) to enable data integration among new and legacy systems. EDM is a resilient, interoperable data integration service connecting sensors, weapons, and other battlefield assets for enhanced situational awareness and coordination into a cloud environment. EDM leverages commercial software, a government-owned software development kit (SDK), and open application programming interfaces (APIs) to integrate government and vendor systems, facilitate tactical data sharing, and incorporate artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) capabilities at the edge. EDM supports multi-domain operations across echelons, including enhanced C2 and fires in contested environments by optimizing data exchange among Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) communication paths. The tactical edge data mesh provides real time understanding at tactical level C2 into the data layer for the department in Joint C2 system.
Project 085 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 | 163.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 26.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 52.8 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 60.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 67.9 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 76.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 84.3 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
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. Each 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.
Continue to field additional tactical edge data mesh nodes to build out capability supporting Department priorities. Additionally, CDAO will continue working with Echelon 1 and Echelon 2 components to prioritize API level data integrations for the nodes. CDAO continues to improve blue data objects and enterprise cross-domain solution…
Read the FY2027 plan →