# Defense Technical Information Center

**R-2A activity** of project 001 — Defense Technical Information Center  
**Program element:** 0605801KA — Defense Technical Information Center  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 6  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605801KA/001/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605801KA/001

## Summary

This activity requests $52.6M in FY2027, 100% of project 001, down 4.4% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2025–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** Fully implement DTIC’s transition to AI-enabled organization/ collection/ one-stop RDT&E analytics DTIC’s S&T/RDT&E Collection: -- Take full advantage of the strategic value of the AI enabled collection -- perform sophisticated analysis, identify patterns, generate predictive insights --Engage with Military Service Labs; FFRDC; UARCs: Establish formal partnerships and regular communication channels with military service labs (e.g., Army Research Laboratory, Air Force Research Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory) and other relevant stakeholders managing repositories (200+) to proactively identify their current and anticipated information needs, research priorities, and critical data requirements. --Kick off outreach initiative to collect all artifacts from MILDEP labs, repositories, universities; FFRDC; UARCs; and others within the Department; reach out to other federal agencies with DoW holdings (i.e. Department of Energy) --Digitize (AI-ready) historic collection currently at DTIC and existing in paper, microfilm, and microfiches. --Develop taxonomies and ontologies to tap into new DTIC repository DTIC’s RDT&E Data Analytics: -- Redesign the Innovators Information Repository in partnership with DIU and CDAO, to be built in the WDP --Partner with OASW(S&T) to reengineer and build DoW-repositories for: grants, SBIR/STTR, patents --Partner with OUSW(A&S) and OUSW(R&E) to build a new submission and dissemination capability for industry Independent Research and Development projects

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** The decrease in the FY 2027 request is due to a deliberate reprioritization of Departmental efforts.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** DTIC will invest in the AI transformation of the organization, prioritized by the Department. A primary focus is remediating severe mission and security vulnerabilities in the IT platform and building new capabilities utilizing existing IT .

**FY2025 accomplishments.** - Increase total submissions by 8% over FY 2024. - Began incorporating automation into submission pipeline. - Deliver bulk submission capability to lower barriers to submission, improve ease of submissions. - Migrated collaboration content and knowledge management platforms to Azure cloud services. - Maintained and enhanced DoDTechipedia capability for users. - Continued to improve and streamline collaborative communications and coordination between S&T and the warfighting community. - Consolidated containerized applications to cloud native architecture to reduce cyber risks and provide users with a consistent view of all data. - Modernized cloud architecture to leverage Azure services a further reduce cyber footprint and maintenance workload. - Further automated the DTIC registration system to enhance seamless registration. - Consolidate user interface components in DTIC’s new cloud environment to improve user experience on DTIC digital products and services by unifying user interface and implementing web accessibility. - Continue to enhance the presentation of information in visualizations making trends and gaps easier to recognize. - Initiate a user profile model to better understand user needs, map outreach messaging to personas, and maximize customer systems engagement. - Enhancing DTIC’s Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) to enhance user profiles and support SaaS advanced analytics. - Build AI and ML models of S&T activity, where technology is progressing. - Continue to publish the Journal of DoD Research and Engineering (JDRE) four times each year, including special editions. - Increase frequency of Innovators Information Repository (IIR) updates to at least quarterly. - Sponsored AI knowledge graph analytics platform for FedRAMP authorization. - Pilot Research Data Hub for small data set sharing.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 65.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 55.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 52.6 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0605801KA project 001 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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