Project C78
$6.8MFY2027 request ▲ 2%One Semi-Automated Forces
FY2025 actual$6.5M
FY2026 enacted$6.7M
FY2027 request$6.8M
Management ServicesProduct DevelopmentSupportTest and Evaluation
FY2027 Request
$7.9M
▲ 2.1% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$7.7M
▲ 3.3% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$7.5M
Prior year
Roll-up of 2 projects. Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it.
For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Army is requesting $7.9M for Distributive Interactive Simulations (DIS) - Eng Dev under RDT&E program element 0604760A, up 2.1% over FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 7.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 7.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 7.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 8.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 8.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 8.1 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 8.2 |
Where it sits
Acquisition lifecycle
This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 5 — System Development & Demonstration.
Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Complete
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Complete
Prototyping
BA 4
Current
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element
2 projects roll up into PE 0604760A
Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year. This PE moves 2% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.
Project C74
$1.1MFY2027 request ▲ 4%Devel Simulation Tech
FY2025 actual$1.0M
FY2026 enacted$1.0M
FY2027 request$1.1M
Management ServicesSupport
Congressional action
Congressional marks
Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.
RequestPresident's Budget
$7.9M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$7.9M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$7.9M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$7.9M full · +$0
unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Who's building it
Where the FY2027 request goes
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit, resolved into industry, government-lab, and unspecified shares. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.
Engineer Computer Simulations (ECS)
$5.0M · 64%
PEO STRI, Orlando, FL
$0.3M · 3.8%
| Where FY2027 funding flows | Share | $M |
|---|---|---|
| Industry primes | 68% | 5.4 |
| Government labs & warfare centers | 3.8% | 0.3 |
| Other / unspecified | 28% | 2.2 |
| FY2027 request | 100% | 7.9 |
Program detail
Mission & acquisition strategy
The PE applies to the Army's Advanced Simulation Program, which enables operational readiness and the development of concepts and systems for the Future Force through the application of new simulation technology and techniques. The development and application of simulation technology will provide the means to link electronically a range of various simulation tools in a manner that is transparent to the user. The amalgam of simulations and tools is linked together to enable execution of an event; to verify the scenarios, tactics/techniques and procedures; to train testers on new hardware/software; and to conduct trial test runs before costly live field tests.
OneSAF manages two Task Orders under one Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) Production and Support contract. The Task Order for support includes Program Management; Development and Customer support; Training; Travel and Other Direct Costs (ODC). The Task Order for Production includes Capability Improvements; Tailored Product Baseline Release; Capability Concurrence; and Integration, Test, and Release. The OneSAF Production and Support contract is tailored to fully serve the current and evolving needs of the user communities.
Project C78, C74 — One Semi-Automated Forces
- Management Services
- Product Development
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
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Sources
FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0604760A (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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/programs/0604760A.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.com → budget_get_program_element, budget_get_cong_marksFY2027 Request
$6.8M
▲ 1.8% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$6.7M
▲ 3.6% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$6.5M
Prior year
One Semi-Automated Forces — one RDT&E project inside PE 0604760A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project C78 — One Semi-Automated Forces — requests $6.8M in FY2027, 87% of the $7.9M requested for program element 0604760A. Year over year it grows 1.8% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project C78 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 6.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 6.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 6.8 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 6.9 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 7.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 7.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 7.1 |
Inside the project
3 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them.
Government System Test and Evaluation for the One Semi-Automated Forces (OneSAF) program.flat
FY2025 actual$1.1M
FY2026 enacted$1.1M
FY2027 request$1.1M
FY2027 planned work Will provide for software, test, integration and release for Version 13.x. Will provide support to the user community experiments, analyses, and validation events for integration into the Home Station Training Federation, Network Integration Events (NIE), Battle Lab Collaborative Simulation Environment (BLCSE), other constructive training capabilities, and other Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC) applications.
FY2026 plans — current year Will provide for software, test, integration and release for Version 14.x. Will provide support to the user community experiments, analyses, and validation events for integration into the Home Station Training Federation, Network Integration Events (NIE), Battle Lab Collaborative Simulation Environment (BLCSE), other constructive training capabilities, and other Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC) applications.
FY2025 accomplishments Will provide for software, test, integration and release for Version 12.2 (Note: FY 2024 release of V13.0 is renamed to V12.1 but prior years are locked). Will provide support to the user community experiments, analyses, and validation events for integration into the Home Station Training Federation, Network Integration Events (NIE), Battle Lab Collaborative Simulation Environment (BLCSE), Entity Simulation Service (ESS) in support of Joint Land Component Constructive Training Capability (JLCCTC), and other Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) applications.
Government Program Management for the One Semi-Automated Forces (OneSAF) program.flat
FY2025 actual$0.3M
FY2026 enacted$0.3M
FY2027 request$0.3M
FY2027 planned work Will provide a portion of program management, engineering and technical oversight, contract support, and travel for support of site surveys and Subject Matter Experts for the development of OneSAF.
FY2026 plans — current year Will provide a portion of program management, engineering and technical oversight, contract support, and travel for support of site surveys and Subject Matter Experts for the development of OneSAF.
FY2025 accomplishments Will provide a portion of program management, engineering and technical oversight, contract support, and travel for support of site surveys and Subject Matter Experts for the development of OneSAF.
Software Engineering activities for the One Semi-Automated Forces Program▲ 2%
FY2025 actual$5.1M
FY2026 enacted$5.4M
FY2027 request$5.5M
FY2027 planned work Will continue the development of software capabilities and prioritized improvements. Will continue the software development of functionality that enhances architectural services, components, synthetic environment and infrastructure of the OneSAF Product Line and will provide for software integration, test and release of required software refreshes and Version 13.x. (Note: Version 12.2 was previously titled Version 14.0 and FY 2024 Version 13.0 is now known as Version 12.1). Additionally, OneSAF will begin exploring initial integration with Next Generation Constructive capability.
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 funding increase is for the OneSAF integrating with other programs for interoperability.
FY2026 plans — current year Will continue the development of software capabilities and prioritized improvements. Will continue the software development of functionality that enhances architectural services, components, synthetic environment and infrastructure of the OneSAF Product Line and will provide for software integration, test and release of required software refreshes and Version 14.x. (Note: Version 12.2 was previously titled Version 14.0 and FY 2024 Version 13.0 is now known as Version 12.1).
FY2025 accomplishments Will continue the development of software capabilities and prioritized improvements. Will continue the software development of functionality that enhances architectural services, components, synthetic environment and infrastructure of the OneSAF Product Line and will provide for software integration, test and release of required software refreshes and Version 12.2 (Note: Version 12.2 was previously titled Version 14.0 and FY 2024 Version 13.0 is now known as Version 12.1)
Who's building it
Named performers on project C78
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.
Engineer Computer Simulations (ECS)
$5.0M · 74%
PEO STRI, Orlando, FL
$0.3M · 4.4%
Project detail
What project C78 buys
One Semi-Automated Forces (OneSAF) develops and delivers a software application that represents activities of units and forces in simulation to support Army Training and Readiness. The application is used by Army agencies to support concept evaluation, experimentation, materiel acquisition and training. The focus of this project is systems/software engineering and design for development and evolution of the architecture and software tools for a universal system of Army computer-generated forces -- OneSAF. OneSAF is a high-fidelity brigade-and-below SAF that represents a full range of operations, systems and control processes in support of stand-alone for embedded training and Research, Development and Acquisition (RDA) simulation applications. OneSAF is fully interoperable with the Army's virtual, live, and division-and-above constructive simulations. FY 2027 base funding in the amount of $6.823 million allows for continued development of the software product line Prioritized Improvements. This funding also provides for the management of the infrastructure, equipment, laboratories, and processes needed to develop, test, and release the required product baseline.
R-3 lines of work
- Management Services
- Product Development
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
FY2027 Request
$1.1M
▲ 3.8% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$1.0M
▲ 1.6% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$1.0M
Prior year
Devel Simulation Tech — one RDT&E project inside PE 0604760A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project C74 — Devel Simulation Tech — requests $1.1M in FY2027, 13% of the $7.9M requested for program element 0604760A. Year over year it grows 3.8% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project C74 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 1.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 1.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 1.1 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 1.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 1.1 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 1.1 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 1.1 |
Inside the project
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them.
Program Management for the SIMCI Overarching Integrated Product Team (OIPT) Projects.▲ 4%
FY2025 actual$1.0M
FY2026 enacted$1.0M
FY2027 request$1.1M
FY2027 planned work SIMCI will continue support Simulation and Mission Command System interoperability through four primary areas. 1) OIPT (Architect Support) - Funding for subject matter experts to conduct routine engagements with the Modeling and Simulation and Digital Engineering communities to include Joint, Army Headquarters, ASA (ALT), Partner Nations, and Industry. Informs strategies of the communities related to interoperability between Mission Command Systems and Simulations. Primary focus will continue to address interoperability challenges between Simulation and Mission Command capabilities through engagements and funding of technical solutions that address these challenges. Architect support will…
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 funding increase due to an economic adjustment.
FY2026 plans — current year SIMCI will continue support Simulation and Mission Command System interoperability through four primary areas. 1) OIPT (Architect Support) - Funding for subject matter experts to conduct routine engagements with the Modeling and Simulation and Digital Engineering communities to include Joint, Army Headquarters, ASA (ALT), Partner Nations, and Industry. Informs strategies of the communities related to interoperability between Mission Command Systems and Simulations. Primary focus will continue to be on Next Generation Constructive (NGC) and Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) to facilitate interoperability of the two developing capabilities increased touchpoints through engagements…
FY2025 accomplishments SIMCI will continue support Simulation and Mission Command System interoperability through four primary areas. 1) OIPT- Funding for subject matter experts to conduct routine engagements with the Modeling and Simulation and Digital Engineering communities to include Joint, Army Headquarters, ASA (ALT), Partner Nations, and Industry. Informs strategies of the communities related to interoperability between Mission Command Systems and Simulations. Primary focus will be on Next Generation Constructive (NGC) and Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) to facilitate interoperability of the two developing capabilities increased touchpoints through engagements and funding of technical solutions…
Who's building it
Named performers on project C74
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.
PEO STRI
$0.0M · 3.5%
Project detail
What project C74 buys
Project C74 funds the Headquarters, Department of Army (HQDA) chartered mission of the Simulation-to-Mission Command Interoperability (SIMCI) Overarching Integrated Product Team (OIPT) in support of Army Training and Readiness. The SIMCI OIPT mission is to provide policy recommendations to Army senior leadership to improve organizations by allowing Soldiers to train as they fight. This is accomplished by interoperability between Mission Command (MC) systems and the Modeling and Simulation (M&S) systems the Army uses to stimulate MC systems for training Soldiers and their Leaders. Additionally, SIMCI also invests in targeted solutions to address critical problem areas that exist between legacy and developing MC systems and Simulations. The SIMCI OIPT provides the following: (1) Advisor to Army Leadership--improve MC and M&S interoperability programs, policies, directives, resourcing, and procedures; (2) Technical Investment--sponsor/support initiatives that seek common solutions to critical interoperability issues surrounding MC and M&S systems; (3) Outreach--conduct & participate in interoperability outreach activities. SIMCI investments consist primarily of cost-sharing initiatives, leveraging initial system solutions of acquisition programs to enhance the interoperability of multiple systems in the Joint Operational Environment. SIMCI investments accelerate implementation within MC and M&S systems, of common data models and information exchanges that are used by other Services and coalition nations. FY 2027 funding continues progress with embedding simulation into Mission Command Systems, continues management of the SIMCI OIPT's Army-wide collaborative, interoperability enhancement activities, including architecture alignment, data model alignment, common standards, components, and products. It is focused first on reducing costs and improving capabilities in the areas of automating Operational Plans, Orders, and Reports in support of Army, Joint, and Coalition operations. Objectives are: identify and articulate to Army senior leadership specific standards that require Army-wide implementation; co-develop data standards, architecture standards, implementation specifications and Joint/Coalition products; continue transition of SIMCI knowledge and proof-of-principle products to Army and Joint acquisition programs.
R-3 lines of work
- Management Services
- Support