RDT&E Project · President's Budget PB2027

Development Planning

Project 666157·PE 0606017F — Requirements Analysis and Maturation·U.S. Air Force·BA6
FY2027 Request
$10.8M
▼ 63% vs FY2026
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Project 666157 — Development Planning requests $10.8M in FY2027, 50% of the $21.7M requested for program element 0606017F, down 63% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

FY2027 Request
$10.8M
▼ 63% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$29.0M
▲ 111% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$13.7M
Prior year
Project detail

What project 666157 buys

Development Planning (DP) funds activities to analyze the Force Design in support of the Capability Development Enterprise. DP conducts coordinated Mission Engineering and Analysis to identify and refine key capability trades, technology needs, and cost and schedule implications. Emphasis is placed on developing options that address force design gaps by analyzing multi-domain capabilities and evaluating Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and Education, Personnel, and Facilities-Planning (DOTMLPF-P) concepts. This analysis informs trade space of candidate concepts, ensuring required attributes are met. The outcome of this effort will be trade space attributes and mission engineering artifacts which will underpin Capability Development decisions. Program management support costs including, but not limited to, hardware, software, travel, contractor support services, civilian pay, supplies, facilities, and infrastructure. This program may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver Requirements Analysis and Maturation capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605833F, 0605898F, and 0606398F.

Funding trajectory

Project 666157 funding, 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. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.

25013.7FY25ACTUAL29.0FY26ENACTED10.8FY27REQUEST11.1FY2811.3FY2911.5FY3011.7FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual13.7
FY2026Enacted29.0
FY2027Request10.8
FY2028Outyear11.1
FY2029Outyear11.3
FY2030Outyear11.5
FY2031Outyear11.7
Inside the project

1 accomplishment / planned program

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. Each describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.

FY2025 actual$13.7M
FY2026 enacted$11.0M
FY2027 request$10.8M

- Maintain current and future force design and threat in scenarios that are used for analysis - Conduct analysis aligned to demand signal, capability-based gap identification, and the scope of DOTMLPF-P in candidate design development to support acquisition decision development - Continue efforts prioritized based on force design…

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