What project 640011 buys
This Project performs core Planning for Development activities, maturing candidate concepts derived from USAF Force Design and Department of War (DoW) priorities to accelerate acquisition timelines, reduce technology risks, demonstrate integration, and deliver potential solutions to address warfighting needs. Key activities include Capability Based Assessments (CBA), analytic refinement studies similar to Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), and other pre-Milestone A planning to determine operational viability and prepare for transition to a Program of Record (PoR), often before a program office is established. It utilizes modern digital tools and methodologies to create a data-driven decision space for concepts not yet mature enough for formal acquisition decisions. These efforts produce technical descriptions that include open systems architectures, industrial base analysis, and initial product support plans to enable future acquisition, testing, and training. The goal is to deliver high-confidence initial designs, performance estimations, and risk identification in coordination with Department of the Air Force (DAF) priorities within a multi-level security structure. It supports the development of single-domain, multi-domain, and system-of-systems solutions. This may include developing contracting structures to foster a competitive industrial base. This Project includes execution on a broad-scope weaponeering analysis effort, "Ensemble Analysis”, of layered and sequenced weapons effects to inform, shape, and guide counter-HDBT employment and acquisition decisions, as well as any follow-on analysis efforts. Program management support costs including, but not limited to, hardware, software, travel, contractor support services, civilian pay, supplies, facilities, and infrastructure. This program element included all necessary expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605833F, and 0605898F. This requirement supports performance of a full financial audit as required by title 10 U.S.C. Chapter 9A, Sec 240-D.
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
Project 640011 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 | 9.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 9.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 57.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 68.6 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 92.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 132.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 173.0 |
2 accomplishments / planned programs
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. 1 of them 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 HVAA-P Planning for Development activities as informed by the endgame demonstration. - Commence additional Planning for Development and conduct further concept refinement activities in response to Force Design and DoW priorities. These efforts will address critical capability areas including, but not limited to, Autonomy…
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