What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 666158 of PE 0606017F. 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.
-Continue to develop, enhance, and proliferate enterprise MS&A capabilities on behalf of the USAF and DAF (and Joint MS&A community through tool interoperability and reusability). - Continue to implement USAF Acquisition network for classified analysis while providing a production development environment with stable RDT&E investment to continually enhance capabilities. - Continue development of USAF Acquisition network for classified analysis across different compute types (local, High-Performance Computer, Cloud Computer) and security levels (CUI through TS//SCI//SAR) with integrated ties to DMM ecosystems for activities such as data and Authoritative Source of Truth integration. - Continue to enhance MS&A tools and enable M&S empowered wargaming, support secure data management and sharing, and develop advanced analytical methods required for tailored fidelity of battlespace environments. - Continued integration of Morpheus into the USW/R&E Joint Capability Development Environment providing integrated government cloud environment for Mission Engineering. - Continue to make available and enhance composable models and common frameworks that can be used to support robust development planning and experimentation for DAF leadership.
- FY 2027 funding decreased compared to FY 2026 by $5.913 million to the elimination of the separate Concept Evaluation Thrust, with its associated activities and funding being integrated into the Future Capability Analyses Thrust. This decrease reflects a strategic realignment to optimize capability development areas and improve resource efficiency. - FY 2027 transferred all SAF/SA related work through a zero-base reprogramming from program element 06060617F to program element 0901226F $9.640 million.
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.
- Continue to develop, enhance, and proliferate enterprise M&S capabilities on behalf of the USAF and DAF (and Joint M&S community through tool interoperability and reusability). - Continue to implement the broader Department of the Air Force Modeling and Simulation Gateway (DAF M&S Gateway) and DAF integrated development environment Morpheus while providing a production development environment with stable RDT&E investment to continually enhance capabilities. - Continue development of DAF M&S Gateway and Morpheus across different compute types (local, High-Performance Computer, Cloud Computer) and security levels (CUI through TS//SCI//SAR) with integrated ties to DMM ecosystems for activities such as data and Authoritative Source of Truth integration. - Continue to invest in development planning for M&S activities driven by DAF M&S Senior Steering Committee and DAF M&S Council. - Continue to enhance tools and enable M&S empowered wargaming, support secure data management and sharing, maintain a skilled cadre of analysts, and develop advanced analytical methods required for tailored fidelity of battlespace environments. - Investigate integration of Morpheus with DAF M&S Gateway and LaunchPad linking DMM and DE community through investment in tools and network infrastructure that integrate M&S with DMM and DE. - Continue to integrate M&S capabilities with data analysis and processing capabilities provided by Department of the Air Force Studies and Analysis (SAF/SA) and the Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Office (SAF/CN). - Continued integration of United States Space Force and Joint M&S capabilities into the Gateway and Morpheus supporting both system and broad system-of-systems, multi-domain level capability development concepts, pre-systems planning, and other relevant strategic development planning activities that enhance the USAF's ability to execute multi-domain operations. - Continue to make available and enhance composable models and common frameworks that can be used to support robust development planning and experimentation for DAF leadership. - This activity will be leveraged to scale up for the broader DAF level Modeling and Simulation enterprise and identify M&S synergies for reusability, commonality, and interoperability between analytic, experimentation, test, training, and planning activities in support of enterprise infrastructure.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 17.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 16.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.9 |
This activity is 100% of project 666158's FY2027 request and 50% of PE 0606017F'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.
1 activity in project 666158
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 project page.