What project C2E buys
Project C2E / C2 Data is established in Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 as part of a new funding structure for the NGC2 investment in modernization of Army C2 systems. This project represents a funding line consolidation and structure change for the NGC2 Data Layer and does not constitute a new start program or effort. Funding for NGC2 Data Layer activities was provided in FY 2026 under PE 0604818A Project EJ6 / Tactical Enhancement, which is realigned under this PE beginning in FY 2027. The Army's data layer provides a unified environment that ingests, transforms, and normalizes data from disparate systems to ensure it is trusted, usable, and interoperable across missions and applications. It delivers secure credentialing and identity-based access controls so users, systems, and automated agents can interact with information according to policy and classification. The layer stores, organizes, and manages data at enterprise scale while applying metadata tagging to enable rapid discovery, retrieval, and fusion. It exposes common data services-such as translation, validation, cataloging, and orchestration-that standardize how information moves across networks and platforms. Together, these functions form the foundation for advanced analytics, AI/ML, and decision-support tools that improve the speed and quality of operations. The Army's data layer includes the operating system and common core services (including interface applications, analytics, network health and cybersecurity, training and simulation). Core services are key to enabling applications in a data-centric network with increased efficiency in overall data/network management. Core services will leverage industry standard protocols for identity authentication and access control at the point of need in denied, disrupted, intermittent and limited environments and enable the tactical environment to meet Department of War and Army Zero Trust requirements. FY 2027 funding supports contract awards deploying C2 Data layer system to the Army, and ensuring continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) for a secure, high performing, and adaptive centerpiece to the NGC2 technology stack.
- Management Services
- Product Development
- Test and Evaluation
Project C2E funding, FY2027–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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 247.5 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 234.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 208.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 233.7 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 242.0 |
3 accomplishments / planned programs
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. 2 of them describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
FY 27 funds CI/CD of the Data capability. It will mature CI/CD processes to integrate emerging technology and scaled capability via algorithms, sensor data, legacy capabilities into the data layer baseline and award contract(s) to deploy the Data Layer capability across the Army. Additionally, it will continue analysis of commercial…
Read the FY2027 plan →Funds labor to support facilitation of continuous competition, cybersecurity compliance assessments, software materiel release and associated updates, logistics support, program oversight and risk management.
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work Funding supports the implementation of testing processes and capabilities for the C2 Data Layer continuous verification and validation processes during CI/CD, including participation in iterative operational assessments for the overarching full stack NGC2 capability (e.g., data, applications, infrastructure and transport layers), software integration, STP and field event testing support and logistics operations support.
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY 2027 increase due to project established under a new funding structure to support NGC2 Data Layer efforts. Increase from prior funded year due to addition of overarching full stack NGC2 assessments.
Named performers on project C2E
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.