What project 773 buys
Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) are spearheading the Department of War's transformation into an AI-enabled enterprise by focusing on warfighting, intelligence, and enterprise-wide AI deployment. The core of this strategy revolves around a series of pioneering "Pace-Setting Projects" (PSPs). For warfighting, initiatives like Swarm Forge, Agent Network, and Ender's Foundry are accelerating AI in novel combat methods, battle management, and simulations. In the intelligence domain, Open Arsenal and Project Grant aim to shorten the intelligence-to-action timeline and transform deterrence strategies. To drive enterprise-wide adoption, the Enterprise Agents PSP provides a playbook for deploying AI workflows. Underpinning all these efforts are two foundational enablers: the new War Data Platform (WDP) for standardized data access and the "GenAI.mil" initiative to scale AI tools across the force. In parallel, Autonomy.mil will provide similar standardization for autonomy platform development across the DoW. The CDAO will champion this transformation as a "Wartime CDAO," cutting through bureaucracy to rapidly deliver these capabilities.
- Management Services
Project 773 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 | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 395.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 969.8 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 1,126.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 1,239.4 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 1,425.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 1,544.2 |
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.
Deliver capabilities from Pace Setting Projects to end users for immediate impact and further iterate CDAO will partner with National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Defense Innovation Unit for the full AI/ML pipeline for Average True Range (ATR) model development. CDAO will focus on data ingest, labeling, and model and sim…
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