# Project 773 — AI & Autonomy Enterprise Enablers

**Program element:** 0604133D8Z — Alpha-1 Development Activities  
**Project:** 773  
**Component:** Defense-Wide  
**Appropriation:** 0400 — RDT&E, Defense-Wide  
**Budget Activity:** 5 — System Development & Demonstration  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604133D8Z/773  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604133D8Z

## Summary

Project 773 — AI & Autonomy Enterprise Enablers requests $969.8M in FY2027, 100% of the $969.8M requested for program element 0604133D8Z, up 145% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

**Markets:** Uncrewed & Autonomy — matched on the project title only, and no market size is quoted.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0604133D8Z; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

**R-3 lines of work:** Management Services.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI & Autonomy Enterprise Enablers | — | 395.9 | 969.8 | +145% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604133D8Z/773/a0) |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### AI & Autonomy Enterprise Enablers

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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604133D8Z/773/a0

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604133D8Z.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0604133D8Z project 773 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0604133D8Z")`.

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