# Project C2E — C2 DATA

**Program element:** 0605332A — C2 Data  
**Project:** C2E  
**Component:** U.S. Army  
**Appropriation:** 2040 — RDT&E, Army  
**Budget Activity:** 5 — System Development & Demonstration  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605332A/C2E  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605332A

## Summary

Project C2E — C2 DATA requests $247.5M in FY2027, 81% of the $306.0M requested for program element 0605332A — a new start, with no prior-year and no current-year money. 3 R-2A activities decompose the request, 3 new this cycle. ATEC is the largest named R-3 performer at $8.2M, 3.3% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| 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 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0605332A; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## 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.

**R-3 lines of work:** Management Services; Product Development; Test and Evaluation.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| ATEC | 8.2 | 3.3% |

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

## Activities (R-2A) — 3

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C2 Data Layer Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) | — | — | 220.3 | new | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605332A/C2E/a0) |
| C2 Data Layer Program Management | — | — | 19.1 | new | [a2](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605332A/C2E/a2) |
| C2 Data Layer Test/Evaluation/Validation/Verification (TEVV) | — | — | 8.2 | new | — |

> 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.

### C2 Data Layer Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) — NEW START

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…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605332A/C2E/a0

### C2 Data Layer Program Management — NEW START

Funds labor to support facilitation of continuous competition, cybersecurity compliance assessments, software materiel release and associated updates, logistics support, program oversight and risk management.

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605332A/C2E/a2

### C2 Data Layer Test/Evaluation/Validation/Verification (TEVV) — NEW START

**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.

## 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/0605332A.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0605332A project C2E (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0605332A")`.

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