# Project 931 — Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Financial Systems

**Program element:** 0605027D8Z — OUSD(C) IT Development Initiative  
**Project:** 931  
**Component:** Defense-Wide  
**Appropriation:** 0400 — RDT&E, Defense-Wide  
**Budget Activity:** 5 — System Development & Demonstration  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605027D8Z/931  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605027D8Z

## Summary

Project 931 — Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Financial Systems requests $250.0M in FY2027, 91% of the $273.3M requested for program element 0605027D8Z — a new start, with no prior-year and no current-year money. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request, 1 new this cycle. OUSW(C), DLA, DISA is the largest named R-3 performer at $250.0M, 100% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0605027D8Z; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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 This includes technology innovations, developing system upgrades, testing, and transition planning to retire outdated platforms that support DoW’s auditability goals.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.

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| OUSW(C), DLA, DISA | 250.0 | 100% |

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

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Financial Systems | 0.0 | 0.0 | 250.0 | new | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605027D8Z/931/a0) |

> 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.

### Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Financial Systems — NEW START

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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605027D8Z/931/a0

## 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/0605027D8Z.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0605027D8Z project 931 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0605027D8Z")`.

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