# Project FM8 — Information Technology for Training Systems

**Program element:** 0605013A — Information Technology Development  
**Project:** FM8  
**Component:** U.S. Army  
**Appropriation:** 2040 — RDT&E, Army  
**Budget Activity:** 5 — System Development & Demonstration  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605013A/FM8  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605013A

## Summary

Project FM8 — Information Technology for Training Systems requests $12.2M in FY2027, 10% of the $121.5M requested for program element 0605013A, up 0.9% on FY2026. 2 R-2A activities decompose the request. JJR is the largest named R-3 performer at $7.0M, 57% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

**Markets:** IT & Software Services — matched on the project title only, and no market size is quoted.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 11.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.2 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 12.2 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 12.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 13.9 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 16.6 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0605013A; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project FM8 buys

This project funds information technology systems that support Army Training. The two systems under FM8 are described below. Of those, the Army Training Information System (ATIS) is an Army priority and the focus of the major investment in FM8. ATIS directly supports two of the four Army Unit Readiness Priorities - Training and Leader Development and serves as an enabler for Manning, Equipping, and Scheduling. 1. Army Training Information System (ATIS) Problem Statement: The Army's current collection of non-integrated training information systems provides limited utility with data that is unreliable, un-trusted, inaccessible, and not responsive to user needs. Sustaining these systems, with their various architectures, standards, and service providers results in higher operating and sustainment costs to the Army. Objective: Collapse 20 legacy systems into a single portal supporting 5 training capability areas. Solution: Utilizing Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) software ATIS will deliver a single portal enterprise training environment capability encompassing scheduling, training development, learning content management, training management, and resource management for all individual, as well as collective training and education. As ATIS is fielded, the Army will reduce the overall cost of the training environment by retiring the duplicative, stove piped systems and improve performance with a data-centric, governed, and architecturally compliant system. ATIS will sunset 20 antiquated information training systems costing over $75M annually. - Training Development: provides ability to develop and coordinate information, including training packages, training events, courses, and exercises. - Training Management: provides centralized ability to access and manage information, including individual and collective/unit training that supports mission tasks and individual training records. - Enterprise Scheduling: provides a single integrated set of applications to schedule training resources, including transportation, classrooms, ranges, supplies, and mandated legal/social individual and unit training. - Content Management: provides centralized access to training information anytime, anywhere, including educational and professional instruction. - Resource Management: provides ability to manage availability/sustainability of training enablers and resources.

**R-3 lines of work:** Management Services; Product Development; Support.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| JJR | 7.0 | 57% |
| Modifying COTS software | 4.0 | 33% |

> Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations. Shares need not reach 100% — unnamed and government work is in the denominator.

## Activities (R-2A) — 2

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Army Training Information System (ATIS) | 10.0 | 11.0 | 11.0 | +1% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605013A/FM8/a0) |
| DLPT5 Content Analysis, Categorization & Modeling | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | +3% | — |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Army Training Information System (ATIS)

FY 2027 RDTE dollars in the amount of $11.047 million will enable ATIS to sunset SRP GIS TK, SRPP, TSIMS, Institutional Training. Features of the sunset systems will be delivered in continuous integrated releases of capability in accordance with Agile Project Management's Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) model…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605013A/FM8/a0

### DLPT5 Content Analysis, Categorization & Modeling

**FY2027 planned work.** FY 2027 funding will refine AI assisted item development capabilities, initiate development of automated and empirical item, exam, and pool health analysis, and initiate development of examinee response simulation capabilities.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** FY 2027 funding increase will initiate the development linguistic feature analysis, initiate development of predictive modeling, initiate development of linguistic feature analysis, and initiate development of machine rating of human speech patterns.

**FY2026 plans — current year.** FY 2026 funding will refine AI assisted item development capabilities, initiate development of automated and empirical item, exam, and pool health analysis, and initiate development of examinee response simulation capabilities.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** FY 2025 funding will initiate the development of topic modeling and predictive modeling capabilities.

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605013A.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0605013A project FM8 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0605013A")`.

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