What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 643316 of PE 0606005F. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.
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 and management frameworks for digital environments at various security levels • Deploy common tools and procedures across platforms Develop and implement the initial data management framework necessary for cross-domain collaboration, including: • Initial data transfer and migration capabilities • File repository infrastructure with associated compute and storage resources • Platform integration and cybersecurity support • Deployment of data collaboration environments Expand upon Modeling & Simulation capabilities: • Develop and deploy Modeling and Simulation Capabilities coupled with artificial intelligence garnering better efficiency for Air Force, Department of the Air Force, and Joint Force • Provide users common interfaces across multiple types of compute in support of multiple workflows focused on modeling and simulation, analysis, and artificial intelligence • Drive integration of Department of Air Force (DAF) and Department of War (DoW) Modeling and Simulation communities with Digital Materiel Management and broader acquisition and test communities • Enhance sharing of models to reduce rework across AF, DAF, and DoW; to include facilitating the sharing of authoritative models developed and distributed by Intelligence Community • Develop core software and interfaces to allow users to leverage existing government resources (such as High Performance Computing Modernization Program) as well as Enterprise agreements with cloud computing providers to reduce cost to execute analysis Identify and resource pathfinder programs to implement Cloud-Based Multi-Level Security networks: • Set up required compute and storage infrastructure and integrate new tools • Develop unclassified configuration templates with required infrastructure and licenses • Create "jump start” environments for rapid on-boarding and testing for adopting programs • Provide help desk and account administration services • Implement Authority to Operate (ATO) processes • Establish connections between development and operational networks (e.g. battle network, sustainment software pipelines, rapid reprogramming, mission planning)
FY 2027 increased compared to FY 2026 by 62.969 million due to introducing a new Enterprise Digital Environment thrust area. Enterprise Digital Environment will create a secure digital ecosystem across all classification levels that connects warfighters to the development process, ensuring capabilities are better designed and integrated across the enterprise.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Not applicable.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 63.0 |
This activity is 34% of project 643316's FY2027 request and 34% of PE 0606005F's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.
3 activities in project 643316
Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the program-element page.