# Mission Command Applications

**R-2A activity** of project 668 — Mission Command Applications  
**Program element:** 0604122D8Z — JADC2 Development and Experimentation Activities  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 6  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604122D8Z/668/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604122D8Z/668

## Summary

This activity requests $2.03B in FY2027, 100% of project 668, up 745% 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.** Funding will expand enterprise access to Joint C2 capabilities to Services across echelon and provide deliberate, sustained development and enterprise-wide integration. Funding will streamline acquisition, establish rigorous testing and evaluation standards, and create clear lines of accountability for performance and management. Finally, funding will advance globally interconnected environment for operations, planning, and intelligence workflows supported by shared access to real time data on the battlespace..

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** FY 2027 increase reflects transition of Joint C2 from rapidly deployed product to program of record for the Department’s enterprise joint warfighting capability. Funding will enable maturation of capability from fragmented deployments to Joint enterprise tooling fully supported across all domains. The FY 2027 increase of $1,589 million expands access to Maven Smart System (MSS) across the Joint Force and Services in support of the Department's Joint Force AI-Enabled Headquarters initiative. MSS is a cloud-based mission command application that aggregates thousands of discrete data streams into AI-enabled workflows, securing decision advantage across all domains. This funding will provide common access to the platform, alongside foundational software development and programmatic operations, to consolidate the Department's software-centric C2 onto a single pane of glass. The FY 2027 increase also reflects $60 million for VJOC. The Virtual Joint Operations Center (VJOC) initiative will establish resilient, globally accessible command and control through a virtual command and control capability. Combining on-prem hardware and commercial software, VJOC provides low-bandwidth access to mission command applications, significantly increasing operational tempo and survivability. CDAO will leverage VJOC to provide a browser-based virtual command center for real-time situational awareness for low-connectivity users at the tactical edge. This augments cloud-based mission command applications, including Maven Smart System, with low-connectivity, tactical-edge functionality.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** CDAO will continue to procure Joint C2 licenses and engineering support for the Joint Force--including Combatant Commands, National Guard Bureau, and the Joint Staff. This includes the ability to share new applications and data integrations across user organizations, and the ability to leverage AI in Joint C2. Funding also supports government-owned DevSecOps pipeline to integrate 3rd party applications into Joint C2 under open architecture to expand the vendor base able to develop applications on data Joint C2 data stack. Finally, funding supports cloud computing costs associated with these capabilities.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 103.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 240.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 2,031.0 |

> 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.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0604122D8Z project 668 (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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