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RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Joint Tactical Network Center (JTNC)

PE 0605030A·U.S. Army·Approp. 2040 — RDT&E·BA5 — System Development & Demonstration
FY2027 Request
$21.6M
Army · RDT&E
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U.S. Army requests $21.6M in FY2027, sustained across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators funded it in full. New SETA leads the industry work.

FY2027 Request
$21.6M
▲ 2.9% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$21.0M
▲ 7.7% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$19.5M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Army is requesting $21.6M for Joint Tactical Network Center (JTNC) under RDT&E program element 0605030A, up 2.9% over FY2026.

Funding trajectory

Funding profile, 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.

019.5FY25ACTUAL21.0FY26ENACTED21.6FY27REQUEST22.1FY2822.7FY2921.9FY3022.1FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual19.5
FY2026Enacted21.0
FY2027Request21.6
FY2028Outyear22.1
FY2029Outyear22.7
FY2030Outyear21.9
FY2031Outyear22.1
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 5 — System Development & Demonstration.

Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Complete
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Complete
Prototyping
BA 4
Current
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element

1 project rolls up into PE 0605030A

Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year. This PE moves 3% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project EA8

Joint Tactical Networking Center

$21.6MFY2027 request ▲ 3%
FY2025 actual$19.5M
FY2026 enacted$21.0M
FY2027 request$21.6M
Management ServicesProduct DevelopmentSupportTest and Evaluation

The Joint Tactical Networking Center (JTNC) is chartered to enable the Department of War (DoW)'s rapid identification, characterization, procurement, fielding, and sustainment of modular, innovative tactical communications products that ensure secure, interoperable, and resilient Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities. The JTNC provides technical expertise to facilitate tactical communications management, innovation, and standardization. The JTNC: (1) maintains a cyber-hardened DoW Information Repository (IR), (2) provides Technical Analyses/Capability Characterizations on tactical communications products, (3) provides Open Systems Architecture Standards, (4) provides exportability analysis and licensing reviews, and (5) serves as Technical Advisor to the Communications, Command, and Control Leadership Board (C3LB) and Tactical Communications Senior Steering Group (TCSSG). JTNC mission is executed in coordination with key government stakeholders to include: C3LB, TCSSG, Communications Technologies and Waveforms Working Group (CTWWG), Resiliency Sub-Working Group (RSWG), the Department of War (DoW) Chief Information Officer (CIO), Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment (USW(A&S)), Joint Staff J6 (JS J6), the Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering, USW(R&E), and the Services. Particular attention is paid to ensuring that interagency work is collaborative and eliminates duplicative capability. The JTNC enables a common software baseline that is hardware agnostic leading to increased competition for Software Defined Radios (SDR). Current JTNC directed requirements, outlined by the C3LB, consist of the CTWWG, Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) support, development/maturation of the DoW IR framework & Cloud migration, and development of the Joint Communications Marketplace (JCM) to meet DoW and Industry requirements in conjunction with DoW Instruction 4630.09. Through collaboration with USW R&E (INSS) and industry partners, JTNC is in the process of capturing information on resilient waveform technologies and portfolio products. The ultimate goal is to expedite market research activities by collecting, analyzing, and making data available in support of emerging Government waveform acquisitions.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
DoW Waveform IR Support, Waveform Standards Evolution and Compliance & Certification Analysis▲ 3%
FY2025 actual$19.5M
FY2026 enacted$21.0M
FY2027 request$21.6M

JTNC will continue to serve as Chair of the Communications Waveforms and Technologies Working Group (CTWWG), supporting both TCSSG and C3LB efforts towards managing Joint warfighter challenges and fielding tactical communications solutions. JTNC will continue technical analysis efforts for C3LB approved waveforms, in accordance with…

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Congressional action

Congressional marks

Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.

RequestPresident's Budget
$21.6M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$21.6M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$21.6M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$21.6M full · +$0
unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Who's building it

Where the FY2027 request goes

Performers named in the R-3 exhibit, resolved into industry, government-lab, and unspecified shares. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.

New SETA
$10.9M · 50%
Program Management Support · CPFF
NIWC PACIFIC
$6.1M · 28%
Program Management Support
Where FY2027 funding flowsShare$M
Industry primes95%20.4
Government labs & warfare centers4.0%0.9
Other / unspecified1.2%0.3
FY2027 request100%21.6
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Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

This funding supports Joint and Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) initiatives to modernize Command and Control (C2) systems. The Joint Tactical Networking Center (JTNC) is chartered to enable the Department of War (DoW)'s rapid identification, characterization, procurement, fielding, and sustainment of modular, innovative tactical communications products that ensure secure, interoperable, and resilient Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) capabilities. The JTNC provides technical expertise to facilitate tactical communications management, innovation, and standardization.

The Joint Tactical Networking Center (JTNC) is a Joint support program to the Services, the DoW Chief Information Officer (CIO), the Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment (USW(A&S)), and USW Research and Engineering (USW(R&E)). JTNC core functions as defined in the JTNC Acquisition Decision Memorandum and Charter signed on 20 January 2014 and revalidated on 13 September 2019 include execution in the following areas: Information Repository, Technical Analysis, Open Systems Architecture Standards, Exportability Analysis and Licensing Review, and Technical Advisor to the C3LB.

Project EA8 — Joint Tactical Networking Center
  • Management Services
  • Product Development
  • Support
  • Test and Evaluation
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FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0605030A (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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