RDT&E Project · President's Budget PB2027

Infrastructure & Support Costs

Project 673508·PE 0604840F — F-35 C2D2·U.S. Air Force·BA7
FY2027 Request
$90.9M
▼ 30% vs FY2026
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Project 673508 — Infrastructure & Support Costs requests $90.9M in FY2027, 8.1% of the $1.13B requested for program element 0604840F, down 30% on FY2026. 2 R-2A activities decompose the request. Wright Patterson AFB, OH is the largest named R-3 performer at $69.3M, 76% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

FY2027 Request
$90.9M
▼ 30% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$130.3M
▼ 18% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$159.1M
Prior year
Project detail

What project 673508 buys

The F-35 Joint Program Office equips U.S. and allied forces with operational F-35 weapon systems in support of military and national security operations. The acquisition and product support workforce provides cutting edge weapon systems, sustainment capabilities, and is charged with providing management, tools, and technical and business capabilities needed to oversee acquisition programs throughout their life cycle. The acquisition workforce funded in this program element will support development phases of acquisition programs to include material solution analysis, technology development, engineering and manufacturing development. This funding does not include costs for base operating support civilian personnel. This program element supports both civilian pay and non-pay support requirements. Additional infrastructure and program management support costs include travel, supplies, contractor support including advisory and assistance support, off-base lease costs, program office IT, cybersecurity, model-based systems engineering, and risk reduction studies including audit readiness and affordability initiatives directly related to C2D2 development efforts. 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.

R-3 lines of work
  • Support
  • Management Services
Funding trajectory

Project 673508 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.

501001500159.1FY25ACTUAL130.3FY26ENACTED90.9FY27REQUEST94.3FY2895.9FY2997.8FY3099.7FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual159.1
FY2026Enacted130.3
FY2027Request90.9
FY2028Outyear94.3
FY2029Outyear95.9
FY2030Outyear97.8
FY2031Outyear99.7
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. 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.

F-35 JPO AFLCMC Civilian Pay▼ 27%
FY2025 actual$113.5M
FY2026 enacted$95.3M
FY2027 request$69.3M

FY2027 planned work Continue to fund the F-35 Joint Program Office acquisition and product support workforce.

FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding projected to decrease due to 2025 DoD Deferred Resignation Program reduction to civilian workforce.

FY2026 plans — current year Continue to fund the F-35 Joint Program Office acquisition and product support workforce.

FY2025 actual$45.6M
FY2026 enacted$35.0M
FY2027 request$21.6M

Continued support of program office efforts, including National Capitol Region/Northern VA and Dayton, OH program unique off-base lease and infrastructure costs, CSS support, travel, supplies, Navy working capital technical SME labor, program office IT, cybersecurity, model-based systems engineering, risk reduction and affordability…

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Who's building it

Named performers on project 673508

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.

Wright Patterson AFB, OH
$69.3M · 76%
WHS,USACE, 88th CPTS
$12.5M · 14%
DLA
$3.6M · 4.0%
BAH
$2.1M · 2.3%