What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 002 of PE 0604826J. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.
Capability Development - Provides the Joint Force with analysis and requirements integration support to continuously modernize C2 for the Joint Force to enable Globally Integrated Operations. Through Joint All-Domain Command and Control Doctrine, Organization, Training, Material, Leadership, Personnel, Facilities and Policy capability requirements identification, verification, prioritization, and management, J6 is DoW’s capability sponsor for CJADC2 and works with Services, Combatant Commands, and Agencies to identify, synchronize, and plan modernization of Joint C2 solutions through concept development, fielding, and sustainment. Critical activities include analysis and management of C2 capability gaps across the joint force through the annual Capability Gap Analysis Process, continuous CJADC2 capability requirements management as Requirements lead for the integrated DoW-wide Capability Portfolio Management, and an annual Capability Portfolio Management Review. Capability Needs capture database management and analysis J6 oversees an agile requirements validation and traceability process that greatly reduces time for joint capability developers to deliver and integrate and sustain solutions and programs. Additional key activities for J6 include conducting of DoW-wide studies on C2, support to integration of emerging command and control joint doctrine (ensuring through the CJADC2 requirements management and analysis process for materiel solutions and joint force modernization) and assisting the DoW and others with rapidly transitioning capability to Combatant Commands and into Service or Joint programs. Key sponsor for the development and maturity of CJADC2 Portfolio Capability Management tools to support alignment of capabilities to warfighter missions. Leads the Combined Communications Electronics Board’s Future Working Group to ensure interoperability among the Five Eyes Nations. C5 Architectures – Continue production of authoritative mission thread and architecture analysis for Chairman’s reviews and J35 readiness reports, focusing on complex, multi-domain scenarios and validating the integration of critical warfighting functions (e.g., Joint Fires, Contested Logistics) into the CJADC2 operational baseline. Mature the architecture repository into an on-demand analytical service for the Joint Staff and partners. Lead the formal assessment in accordance with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Manual 8411.01 Development of Warfighting Mission Area Architectures for implementation, delivering an annual compliance report with data-driven recommendations to refine Warfighter Mission Area standards. As the U.S. lead for North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and FVEY architecture teams, spearhead joint architecture efforts to validate standards and deliver formal reports on interoperability gaps to guide future coalition investment. Data and Standards - Lead, Manage, and Support the development and sustainment of a Persistent Environment to support Data Operations and Testing for: Interoperability for major experiments and exercises, Data Service Catalog among US, Mission, NATO, and Industry Partners, CJADC2 compliance and readiness assessments, federated space to foster and support research among partners, and testing standards such as: ACP-240, ICAM, and Zero Trust. Coalition Interoperability – Continue to demonstrate and assess Zero Trust and Data Centric Security via virtual machines and cloud to support integration of mission partners beyond FVEYs into and Mission Partner Environment fielded capabilities to support globally integrated operations. Expand the Olympus series to include leave behind operational capabilities that provide data centric security enable rapid and secure mission partner information sharing. As new capabilities are introduced and implemented review and assess the doctrinal, organizational, training, materiel, leadership, personnel, facilities and policy implications required to maximize performance of modernized information sharing capabilities. Integrate improved mission partner information sharing capabilities in Combatant Command and Service component exercise and training events that promote the acceptance and adoption of modernized mission partner information sharing and data exchange capabilities. JS J6 supports the Combined Communications-Electronics Board and its subordinate groups to ensure interoperability among the Five Eyes nations (Canada, New Zealand, Australia, UK, and U.S.). Lead the U.S. C5I Standardization Agreements ratification. Joint Experimentation - Combatant Commands, Services, Agencies and Allies/Coalition partners are provided a laboratory, exercise and assessment venue for the warfighter and capability developer to identify and solve interoperability, integration, and cyber issues. Provide the CJADC2 Joint Demonstration Environment for an integrated wide-area experimental network for the conduct of interoperability assessments and integration activities. Contribute to wargames, exercises and experiments that explore current and future warfighting with coalition partners to assess and integrate emerging technologies and proven CJADC2 solutions. This effort addresses joint warfighting requirements for the near, mid, and long-term.
The net increase of $0.320M directly support the acceleration of joint warfighter capabilities and ensure the seamless integration of new technologies across the force.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Capability Development - Provides the Joint Force with analysis and requirements integration support to continuously modernize C2 for the Joint Force to enable Globally Integrated Operations. Through Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) Doctrine, Organization, Training, Material, Leadership, Personnel, Facilities and Policy capability requirements identification, verification, prioritization, and management, Joint Staff J6 is the Department of War’s (DoW’s) capability sponsor for CJADC2 and works with Services, Combatant Commands, and Agencies to identify, synchronize, and plan modernization of Joint C2 solutions through concept development, fielding, and sustainment. Critical activities include analysis and management of C2 capability gaps across the joint force through the annual Capability Gap Analysis Process, continuous CJADC2 capability requirements management as Requirements lead for the integrated DoW-wide Capability Portfolio Management, and an annual Capability Portfolio Management Review. Capability Needs capture database management and analysis. The Joint Staff, J6 oversees an agile requirements validation and traceability process that greatly reduces time for joint capability developers to deliver and integrate and sustain solutions and programs. Additional key activities for J6 include conducting DoW-wide studies on C2, support to integration of emerging command and control joint doctrine, and assisting the DoW, and others with rapidly transitioning capability to Combatant Commands and into Service or Joint programs. Key sponsor for the development and maturity of CJADC2 Portfolio Capability Management tools to support alignment of capabilities to warfighter missions. Leads the Combined Communications-Electronic Boards’s Future Working Group to ensure interoperability among the Five Eyes (FVEY) Nations. C5 Architectures - Build upon the successes of prior years to mature and expand C5 Architectures. Continue to lead the delivery of architecture, mission thread, and analysis products to support Chairman's directed focus areas, CJADC2 initiatives, and key programmatic reviews (Integrated Acquisition Portfolio Reviews, Technology Modernization Reviews, Strategic Portfolio Reviews, and Capability Portfolio Reviews). The focus will shift to enterprise-wide implementation, ensuring full compliance and integration. Efforts will concentrate on enhancing and expanding the authoritative repository for architecture and mission thread data, leveraging it as a cornerstone for advanced analysis and data-driven decision-making. This includes maturing capabilities for discovery, accessibility, and reuse to enable seamless integration with North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Coalition, and FVEY partners' data, building on the established leadership within NATO and FVEY forums. Continue to refine and maintain the Joint Common Service/System Function List and Warfighter Mission Area Architecture Development Standards, actively identifying gaps and opportunities to improve integration and interoperability. In partnership with FVEY members, continue developing mission threads that support the FVEY Strategy to Compete Implementation Plan, focusing on areas of mutual strategic advantage. Data and Standards improves joint and combined warfighter interoperability—enhancing joint force readiness—by developing and maintaining data policies, standards, and governance structures; integrating them into capability requirements; facilitating implementation through rapid prototyping, integration, and evaluation of emerging technologies and data solutions in joint and coalition environments; and providing subject matter expertise to Combatant Commands and Joint Staff J6 divisions to ensure mission priorities are supported with operationally ready, standards-compliant data capabilities. Serve as the Joint Staff Office of Primary Responsibility for the development, coordination, and maintenance of interoperable command and control data exchange, tactical interoperability standards, message text formats, symbology, data management practices, information exchange requirements, tactical data link standards, NATO Standardization Agreements, and related documentation to support joint, interagency, coalition, and mission partner operations. Facilitate Implementation through Rapid Prototyping, Integration, and Evaluation Identify, prioritize, lead, and participate in operational experiments, demonstrations, and technical evaluations to assess warfighter-related data exchanges and tactical interoperability standards across joint, interagency, and coalition communities. Capture lessons learned and provided recommendations to advance C4/cyber data exchange and tactical interoperability standards in support of warfighter requirements. Supports and manages the development and maturity of the CJADC2 Portfolio Capability Management Tool to support CJADC2 and aligned warfighter mission(s). Supports the JCS J6 Joint Assessment Division in the evaluation and conformance of CJADC2 systems, to include Data Interoperability testing among the services and Allied Partners, both North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Non-NATO. Establish, Maintain, and support a persistent test environment to direct support: Joint Demonstrations and Exercises, the testing of Data Standards, Data Compliance testing, Data Interoperability testing, and the testing of Data Technologies such as: Fabrics, Meshes, Data Fusion Engines, and AI tools. Generate, Maintain, and Operationalize dynamic Data Models (DMs) of CJADC2, and C2 related, systems to establish a Single-Source of Truth of the current operational state of data interoperability. Coordinate, update, and oversee the integration of complex C2 DMs with: Chairman’s Dashboard, CCMDs’ operational investments, and collaborate across Joint Staff for integration and maintainability.
Capability Development - Analyze/coordinate out-year Command and Control (C2) integrated priority lists, capability gaps, and CJADC2 Implementation Plan and Campaign Plan LOE requirements that are foundational to CJADC2. Oversee & sustain CJADC2 Capability Needs Database providing DoD visibility of Joint C2 requirements. Co-lead CJADC2 Implementation Plan LOE 2 (Human Element – Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership Awareness, Personnel, Facilities & Policy (DOTMLPF-P)). Co-lead GIDE series planning and integration. Develop CJADC2 Capability Portfolio Management Reviews (CPMRs) and manage CAPSTONE CJADC2 Initial Capabilities Document (ICD) execution. Support the development of C2 Joint Warfighting Concepts (JWC) and Concept-Required Capabilities (CRC). C5 Architectures - Provide architecture, mission thread, and mission-based analysis and analysis products as required to support the Chairman's directed focus areas. Continue development of CJADC2 Reference Architecture and Design and the CJADC2 CCMD operational baseline. Update the Joint Common Service/System Function List and Warfighter Mission Area (WMA) Architecture Development Standards to improve WMA architecture integration and interoperability. Continue to improve and expand the quality and amount of mission thread, mission analysis, architecture information and data available for analysis and reuse, including NATO and Coalition partners. Conduct analyses and develop mission-based architectures and metrics for Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) C5 capability requirement documents, Integrated Acquisition Portfolio Reviews (IAPRs), Technology Modernization Transition Reviews (TMTRs), Strategic Portfolio Reviews (SPRs), Capability Portfolio Management Reviews (CPMRs), and CJADC2 Campaign Plans in order to provide a common, mission-based joint and coalition design framework for the Department that includes mission partners and considers adversary actions. Continue to work with FVEY partners to develop mission threads in support of the FVEY Strategy to Compete Implementation Plan. Continue maturing the authoritative repository for discovery, accessibility, reuse and analysis of architecture and mission data in support of JCIDS, CPMRs, TMTRs, IAPRs, SPRs and CJADC2 Campaign Plans. Data and Standards – Develop, promote, and integrate common Joint and Combined enterprise data and IT services requirements, standards, technical specifications, and policy, including enterprise data management to improve Combined Joint All Domain C2 (CJADC2) interoperability. Perform and lead proof of concept activities, including cloud-based data lakes that enable standardization of the NIEMOpen data exchange model and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Core Data Framework (NCDF) with selected Combined Joint All Domain C2 communities of interest, including robotics and autonomous systems. Conduct at least one Multi-Domain Operations proof of concept demonstration with NATO with interested Services, Agencies and coalition partners to improve warfighter interoperability and enhance operational effectiveness. Lead, align and standardize emerging Combined Joint All Domain C2 tactical data link, symbology (including cyber symbology) and military messaging standards to support common enterprise-level information sharing. Support standardization of common warfighter Federated Identity Access Management, robust cyber security, standardized interfaces, and common enterprise data tagging in order to guide and promote a DoD data environment for sharing information through interfaces and data services to discover, understand and exchange data with mission partners across all domains, security levels and echelons. Coalition Interoperability - International lead for the Coalition Interoperability Assurance and Validation (CIAV) providing interoperability mission-based assessments across the Combatant Commands. Represent the Combatant Commands, Services and Agencies mission partner environment (MPE) Requirements. Continue to lead MPE demonstrations and implementation. Support coalition cyber priorities across DoD by co-leading the MPE cyber security efforts and supporting the federated mission networking (FMN) cyber security working group. Continue to shape NATO FMN implementation to ensure it remains aligned with MPE, including related capability development. Provide support to the Combined Communications-Electronics Board (CCEB) to ensure interoperability among the Five Eyes nations (Canada, New Zealand, Australia, UK, and U.S.). Lead the U.S. C5I Standardization Agreements ratification. Co-lead the CJADC2 LOE 5 modernizing mission partner information sharing in order to lead and shape the advancement of current and future C2 capabilities that will ensure Joint Force interoperability with mission partners across all warfighting domains. Joint Experimentation - Combatant Commands, Services, Agencies and Allies/Coalition partners are provided a laboratory, exercise and assessment venue for the warfighter and capability developer to identify and solve interoperability, integration, and cyber issues to include Zero Trust implementation. Provide the CJADC2 Joint Demonstration Environment (JDE) for an integrated wide-area experimental network for the conduct of interoperability assessments and integration activities. Contribute to wargames, exercises and experiments that explore current and future warfighting C2 concepts with coalition partners including Mission Partner Environments in order to support the assessment and integration of emerging technologies and proven CJADC2 solutions into the joint operational environment to address joint warfighting concept near, mid, and long-term requirements.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 16.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 14.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.8 |
This activity is 100% of project 002's FY2027 request and 52% of PE 0604826J's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.
1 activity in project 002
Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the project page.