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RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Foreign Materiel Acquisition and Exploitation

PE 0605117F·U.S. Air Force·Approp. 3600 — RDT&E·BA7 — Operational System Development
FY2027 Request
$4.7M
◆ Restart — nothing enacted in FY2026
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U.S. Air Force requests $4.7M in FY2027 against nothing enacted in FY2026, 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. SAF/CDMA leads the industry work.

FY2027 Request
$4.7M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$123.8M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Air Force is requesting $4.7M for Foreign Materiel Acquisition and Exploitation under RDT&E program element 0605117F, against nothing enacted in 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.

2550751001250123.8FY25ACTUAL0.0FY26ENACTED4.7FY27REQUEST4.2FY284.4FY294.5FY304.6FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual123.8
FY2026Enacted0.0
FY2027Request4.7
FY2028Outyear4.2
FY2029Outyear4.4
FY2030Outyear4.5
FY2031Outyear4.6
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 7 — Operational System Development.

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 0605117F

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.

Project 675897

Foreign Materiel Acquisition and Exploitation

$4.7MFY2027 request RESTART
FY2025 actual$123.8M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$4.7M
Product DevelopmentSupport

This is a MIP Program. Funding for the activity in this PE from FY2026 and beyond has been transferred to an alternate PE. The FMA&E activity will resume in that PE. The Foreign Materiel Acquisition and Exploitation (FMA&E) program element supports the military services' and defense agencies' Foreign Material Program activities. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Foreign Materiel Acquisition and ExploitationRESTART
FY2025 actual$123.8M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$4.7M

FY2027 planned work Classified details can be found in OSW Comptroller's classified Defense Wide Justification Book Volume 6.

FY2026 to FY2027 change FY2026 Funding transferred to alternate PE. See classified budget document for additional details.

FY2026 plans — current year Classified

Congressional action

Congressional marks

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

RequestPresident's Budget
$4.7M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$4.7M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$4.7M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$4.7M 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.

SAF/CDMA
$0.6M · 12%
SAF/CDM Salary and Travel
Where FY2027 funding flowsShare$M
Industry primes12%0.6
Other / unspecified88%4.1
FY2027 request100%4.7
See SAF/CDMA's full federal contract ledger members →
Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

This is a MIP Program. Funding for the activity in this PE from FY2026 and beyond has been transferred to an alternate PE. The FMA&E activity will resume in that PE. The Foreign Materiel Acquisition and Exploitation (FMA&E) program element supports the military services' and defense agencies' Foreign Material Program activities. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F.

Classified details can be found in OSD Comptroller's classified Defense-Wide Justification Book Volume 6.

Project 675897 — Foreign Materiel Acquisition and Exploitation
  • Product Development
  • Support
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Sources
FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0605117F (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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