RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Digital Transformation Office

PE 0606005F·U.S. Air Force·Approp. 3600 — RDT&E·BA4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes
FY2027 Request
$183.4M
◆ Scaling +150%
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U.S. Air Force funding ramps 150% to a $183.4M request in FY2027, before stepping down 44% across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators added 21% (to $221.7M).

FY2027 Request
$183.4M
▲ 150% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$73.5M
▲ 282% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$19.2M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Air Force is requesting $183.4M for Digital Transformation Office under RDT&E program element 0606005F, up 150% over 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.

50100150200019.2FY25ACTUAL73.5FY26ENACTED183.4FY27REQUEST196.0FY28200.2FY29100.2FY30103.6FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual19.2
FY2026Enacted73.5
FY2027Request183.4
FY2028Outyear196.0
FY2029Outyear200.2
FY2030Outyear100.2
FY2031Outyear103.6
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes.

Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Complete
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Current
Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element

1 project rolls up into PE 0606005F

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. This PE moves 150% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project 643316

Digital Transformation Office

$183.4MFY2027 request ▲ 150%
FY2025 actual$19.2M
FY2026 enacted$73.5M
FY2027 request$183.4M
Product Development

The Digital Transformation Office (DTO) encompasses the acquisition and development of common digital tools, software, and training to expedite the delivery of pertinent technologies, capabilities, and weapons throughout the enterprise. This program ensures the swift and cost-effective deployment of software tools to acquisition programs by developing common, enterprise-level, cloud-hosted software tool environments; this will equip the acquisition enterprise with Model-Based Systems Engineering, analytics, requirements management, and product life cycle management tools that will accelerate the delivery of war fighting capabilities. The program's objective is to develop and deploy enterprise-wide approaches for standardizing and scaling digital tool capabilities, resulting in reduced program delivery times. This holistic approach enables unprecedented collaboration with industry, lowers contract deliverable costs through government-approved data architectures and model delivery, and enhances foundational capability across the Department of Air Force (DAF) by providing access to cloud-hosted tools to empower the acquisition workforce. This program element included all necessary expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in Operations and Maintenance program element 0901212F. The Digital Transformation Office, received a Congressional Add for FY2026 4.000 million for Platform Visualization Tools for Multi-Domain Threat Analysis. Upon Congressional spend plan approval, an Internal Reprogramming (IR) will be processed aligning the funding to PE 0604317F for proper execution. The Digital Transformation Office, received a Congressional Add for FY2026 2.000 million for Next Generation Aircraft Surface Inspections. Upon Congressional spend plan approval, an Internal Reprogramming (IR) will be processed aligning the funding to PE 0606004F for proper execution. The Digital Transformation Office, received a Congressional Add for FY2026 2.000 million for Digital Transformation Office. Upon Congressional spend plan approval, an Internal Reprogramming (IR) will be processed aligning the funding to PE 0604317F for proper execution.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
LaunchPad▲ 41%
FY2025 actual$9.6M
FY2026 enacted$14.5M
FY2027 request$20.4M

Efforts will establish seamless connection across commercial tools in LaunchPad to reduce manual efforts, improve efficiency, and add capability across the acquisition lifecycle. LaunchPad 2.0 will continue access to additional data sources across the Department of Air Force (DAF) data ecosystem. This includes developing new data…

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FY2025 actual
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$63.0M

Establish the foundational Enterprise Common Services and governance structure for the EDE. • Implement data ingress/egress services from cloud service providers • Set up data transfer capabilities across approved Cross Domain Solutions (CDS) and expand existing CDS capabilities to support additional data formats • Establish governance…

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FY2025 actual
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$100.0M

• Expand F-35 Rapid Execution of Microelectronics Digital Engineering (REMEDE) Digital Electronics Systems Engineering (DESE) infrastructure to support the DoW enterprise including secure cloud (IL-5) with elastic compute • Acquire and deploy Electronic Design Automation tools, hardware emulation, multi-physics compute, and expert…

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Congressional action

Congressional marks

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

RequestPresident's Budget
$183.4M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$183.4M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$183.4M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$221.7M +$38.3M · +21%
▲ $38.3M chamber gap — 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.

Where FY2027 funding flowsShare$M
Other / unspecified100%183.4
FY2027 request100%183.4
Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

The Digital Transformation Office (DTO) encompasses the acquisition and development of common digital tools, software, and training to expedite the delivery of pertinent technologies, capabilities, and weapons throughout the enterprise. This program ensures the swift and cost-effective deployment of software tools to acquisition programs by developing common, enterprise-level, cloud-hosted software tool environments; this will equip the acquisition enterprise with Model-Based Systems Engineering, analytics, requirements management, and product life cycle management tools that will accelerate the delivery of war fighting capabilities.

LaunchPad: Acquisition strategy is to use incremental and collaborative strategy by leveraging an existing Time & Materials (T&M) contract with plans for a new award. Enterprise Digital Environment: Acquisition strategy is to use incremental and collaborative approach by utilizing various existing partner contracts and establishing new ones where needed. Enterprise Electronics Digital Environment: Acquisition strategy is to use incremental and collaborative strategy, leveraging existing contracts with multiple partners and creating new contracts for specific vendor requirements.

Project 643316 — Digital Transformation Office
  • Product Development
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FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0606005F (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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