RDT&E Project · President's Budget PB2027

Combat Data Systems (CDS)

Project 673506·PE 0604840F — F-35 C2D2·U.S. Air Force·BA7
FY2027 Request
$40.0M
▼ 14% vs FY2026
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Project 673506 — Combat Data Systems (CDS) requests $40.0M in FY2027, 3.5% of the $1.13B requested for program element 0604840F, down 14% on FY2026. 2 R-2A activities decompose the request. LM is the largest named R-3 performer at $32.9M, 82% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

FY2027 Request
$40.0M
▼ 14% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$46.7M
▲ 23% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$38.0M
Prior year
Project detail

What project 673506 buys

F-35 Combat Data Systems (CDS) Program Management Office mission includes investment and modernization activities required for Block 4 development, integration, test and evaluation of Mission Data Hardware/Tools, Reprogramming Verification & Validation Systems (RVVS), and Mission Planning Software/Hardware, which includes the Next Generation Open Mission System (NOMS). Funding related to key deliveries to Electronic Warfare Squadrons and F-35 Operational Squadrons and enables government and contractor labor for mission planning and joint reprogramming enterprise. Other costs support Technology Investment for key Modernization/ Innovation activities and Cloud-based DevSecOps 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. Funding allocations at the project level have historically been subject to change due to the complexity of the F-35 budget structure and cost share ratios. The program will ensure any within-PE adjustments during execution year are reflected in future budget submissions. The FY2027 request for Combat Data Systems includes $40,002 thousand of discretionary and $19,000 thousand of mandatory for a total of $59,002 thousand for Block 4 capability development.

R-3 lines of work
  • Product Development
  • Support
Funding trajectory

Project 673506 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.

25038.0FY25ACTUAL46.7FY26ENACTED40.0FY27REQUEST41.1FY2841.9FY2942.7FY3043.5FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual38.0
FY2026Enacted46.7
FY2027Request40.0
FY2028Outyear41.1
FY2029Outyear41.9
FY2030Outyear42.7
FY2031Outyear43.5
Inside the project

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. Each describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.

FY2025 actual$20.0M
FY2026 enacted$26.5M
FY2027 request$20.3M

Complete development support for F-35 Mission Planning capability enhancements identified in approved requirements documents for Block 4 and modernization efforts within the mission planning support hardware and software. Improve the common, tailorable MPSE software suite that supports all developmental and fielded OFP/ SDL releases, as…

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FY2025 actual$18.0M
FY2026 enacted$20.3M
FY2027 request$19.7M

Continue software development efforts that deploy software tools to increase capacity within the reprogramming laboratories. Continue ongoing efforts to support aircraft in relation to Continuous Development Capability Delivery (C2D2). Continue to upgrade Reprogramming Verification & Validation Systems (RVVS) to meet the Block 4…

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Who's building it

Named performers on project 673506

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.

LM
$32.9M · 82%
Eglin AFB
$7.1M · 18%