What project 931 buys
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Financial Systems: This request seeks additional funding to implement, sustain, and fully realize benefits from previous investments for automation, artificial intelligence (AI), and financial systems for FY 2027 and beyond. These technologies will automate internal controls to sustain the opinion and reduce the annual cost of audit sustainment. This effort supports the Department’s goal of using these technologies to achieve an unmodified audit opinion as directed in the Secretary of War's memo "Achieving a 2028 Unmodified Financial Statement Audit Opinion" dated June 16, 2025. A portion of this funding will be used to execute this directive. The RDT&E request supports new enhanced digital infrastructure and software licenses necessary for AI solution development and prototyping. RDT&E will also be used to modernize existing systems, develop new capabilities, and evaluate whether legacy systems should be retired. This includes technology innovations, developing system upgrades, testing, and transition planning to retire outdated platforms that support DoW’s auditability goals. This includes interoperability improvements to ensure older systems can communicate with new platforms. With the focus on enterprise / Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)-centric solutions, the procurement and implementation of additional system capabilities will be required. As part of the Department’s focus to reform Advana to accelerate AI and enhance auditability, the OUSW(C) is establishing Advana for Financial management, from the War Data Platform, to support its financial operations and audit. The request supports the development of new AI and automation capabilities in support of the audit. To accelerate the modernization of DoW’s financial management system environment, the FY 2027 request capitalizes on the initiatives that the Department began. The request will accelerate the consolidation of the DoW's financial operations into a highly centralized, ERP-centric model, enforcing new data standards that generate savings. Concurrently, the OUSW(C) will use AI and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) bots to automate high-volume, error-prone manual tasks, such as, validating journal entries, reconciling account balances, and retrieving evidential matter. This will lead to directly improving data accuracy and audit readiness.
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Project 931 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.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 250.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 250.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 250.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 250.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 250.0 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
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 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.
In FY 2027, the program will accelerate its modernization by leveraging AI and automation to enhance audit remediation efforts and drive financial transformation. A primary focus will be evolving the Universe of Transactions (UoT) into a more integrated, AI-driven solution, which includes designing new data architecture, creating…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 931
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.