What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project EA8 of PE 0605030A. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.
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 Service priorities and the FY 2027 JTNC Management Plan. The JTNC will continue to support both the Services and Principal Staff Assistant (DoW CIO) in oversight of Lead Service activities as Technical Advisor, assisting in the identification and resolution of cross-service networking disconnects. The JTNC will support Joint and Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) initiatives to modernize Command and Control (C2) systems. The JTNC will remain engaged in Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) Operational Planning Teams/ systems engineering support across the Services. The JTNC, through the efforts of the CTWWG's Resiliency Sub-Working Group, will coordinate and socialize resiliency terminology, processes, and support resources to design, test, compare, and field tactical radio products most capable of mitigating adversary detection, interception, geolocation, and jamming threats. The JTNC will continue managing and maintaining the DoW Information Repository (IR), providing controlled access for proprietary and nonproprietary waveforms and associated tactical communications products. The JTNC will enhance DoW IR capabilities by evolving framework compliance and Cloud migration. The JTNC will continue Joint Communications Marketplace (JCM) development and refinements to meet DoW and Industry requirements in conjunction with DoD Instruction 4630.09. The JTNC will manage evolution of the JCM to provide value-added collaborative environment tools, enabling Government and Industry to share information on innovative technologies and DoW capability gaps leading to rapid acquisition efforts to meet warfighter needs. JCM capabilities/communities will continue to support PEO C3T and Network Cross-Functional Team (N-CFT) requirements for Industry engagement, Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs), whitepaper submission and evaluation, and contract efforts. The JTNC will continue development of tactical communications vendor product capability characterizations for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and non-developmental item (NDI) tactical communication products. The JTNC will continue to evolve DoW Waveform Standards to facilitate common development, interoperability and re-use, reducing product development time and facilitating faster delivery of capabilities to warfighters. Focused efforts will leverage emerging Spectrum activities and facilitate deployment of the Modular Radio Architecture (MRA). Finally, the JTNC will continue to support export requests and analyses of products for exportability.
FY 2027 funding increase supports development/maturation of the DoW IR and analysis of directed software and artifacts.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
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 Service priorities and the FY 2026 JTNC Management Plan. The JTNC will continue to support both the Services and Principal Staff Assistant (DoW CIO) in oversight of Lead Service activities as Technical Advisor, assisting in the identification and resolution of cross-service networking disconnects. The JTNC will remain engaged in Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) Operational Planning Teams/ systems engineering support across the Services. The JTNC, through the efforts of the CTWWG's Resiliency Sub-Working Group, will coordinate and socialize resiliency terminology, processes, and support resources to design, test, compare, and field tactical radio products most capable of mitigating adversary detection, interception, geolocation, and jamming threats. The JTNC will continue managing and maintaining the DoW Information Repository (IR), providing controlled access for proprietary and nonproprietary waveforms and associated tactical communications products. The JTNC will enhance DoW IR capabilities by evolving framework compliance and Cloud migration. The JTNC will continue Joint Communications Marketplace (JCM) development and refinements to meet DoW and Industry requirements in conjunction with DoD Instruction 4630.09. The JTNC will manage evolution of the JCM to provide value-added collaborative environment tools, enabling Government and Industry to share information on innovative technologies and DoW capability gaps leading to rapid acquisition efforts to meet warfighter needs. JCM capabilities/communities will continue to support PEO C3T and Network Cross-Functional Team (N-CFT) requirements for Industry engagement, Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs), whitepaper submission and evaluation, and contract efforts. The JTNC will continue development of tactical communications vendor product capability characterizations for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and non-developmental item (NDI) tactical communication products. The JTNC will continue to evolve DoW Waveform Standards to facilitate common development, interoperability and re-use, reducing product development time and facilitating faster delivery of capabilities to warfighters. Focused efforts will leverage emerging Spectrum activities and facilitate deployment of the Modular Radio Architecture (MRA). Finally, the JTNC will continue to support export requests and analyses of products for exportability.
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 Service priorities and the FY 2025 JTNC Management Plan. The JTNC will continue to support both the Services and Principal Staff Assistant (DoD CIO) in oversight of Lead Service activities as Technical Advisor, assisting in the identification and resolution of cross-service networking disconnects. The JTNC will remain engaged in Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) Operational Planning Teams/ systems engineering support across the Services. The JTNC, through the efforts of the CTWWG's Resiliency Sub-Working Group, will coordinate and socialize resiliency terminology, processes, and support resources to design, test, compare, and field tactical radio products most capable of mitigating adversary detection, interception, geolocation, and jamming threats. The JTNC will continue managing and maintaining the DoD Information Repository (IR), providing controlled access for proprietary and nonproprietary waveforms and associated tactical communications products. The JTNC will enhance DoD IR capabilities by evolving framework compliance and Cloud migration. The JTNC will continue Joint Communications Marketplace (JCM) development to meet DoD and Industry requirements in conjunction with DoD Instruction 4630.09. The JTNC will manage evolution of the JCM to provide value-added collaborative environment tools, enabling Government and Industry to share information on innovative technologies and DoD capability gaps leading to rapid acquisition efforts to meet warfighter needs. JCM capabilities/communities will continue to support PEO C3T and Network Cross-Functional Team (N-CFT) requirements for Industry engagement, Technical Exchange Meetings (TEMs), whitepaper submission and evaluation, and contract efforts. The JTNC will continue development of tactical communications vendor product capability characterizations for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and non-developmental item (NDI) tactical communication products. The JTNC will continue to evolve DoD Waveform Standards to facilitate common development, interoperability and re-use, reducing product development time and facilitating faster delivery of capabilities to warfighters. Focused efforts will leverage emerging Spectrum activities and facilitate deployment of the Modular Radio Architecture (MRA). Finally, the JTNC will continue to support export requests and analyses of products for exportability.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 19.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 21.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 21.6 |
This activity is 100% of project EA8's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0605030A's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.
1 activity in project EA8
Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the program-element page.