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RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Acquisition Visibility - Software Pilot Program

PE 0608648D8Z·Defense-Wide·Approp. 0400 — RDT&E·BA8 — Budget Activity 8
FY2027 Request
$64.4M
◆ Scaling +272%
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Defense-Wide funding ramps 272% to a $64.4M request in FY2027, sustained 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 13% (to $72.5M).

FY2027 Request
$64.4M
▲ 272% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$17.3M
▲ 0.3% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$17.3M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, Defense-Wide agencies are requesting $64.4M for Acquisition Visibility - Software Pilot Program under RDT&E program element 0608648D8Z, up 272% 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.

255075100017.3FY25ACTUAL17.3FY26ENACTED64.4FY27REQUEST91.3FY2898.0FY29108.8FY3083.4FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual17.3
FY2026Enacted17.3
FY2027Request64.4
FY2028Outyear91.3
FY2029Outyear98.0
FY2030Outyear108.8
FY2031Outyear83.4
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 8 — Budget Activity 8.

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

1 project rolls up into PE 0608648D8Z

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 272% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project 059

Acquisition Digital Transformation Program

$64.4MFY2027 request ▲ 272%
FY2025 actual$17.3M
FY2026 enacted$17.3M
FY2027 request$64.4M
Product Development

Acquisition Visibility supports the Department’s effort to implement Executive Order 14265 “Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base.” By leveraging machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital tools, Acquisition Visibility will rapidly and iteratively transform the Department’s acquisition digital systems and processes with an emphasis on speed, flexibility, and execution. To achieve this, Acquisition Visibility will build a joint multi-cloud enterprise digital infrastructure for hosting digital platforms and AI tools; provide data engineering, data science, and digital governance expertise to build enterprise data pipelines and develop data governance standards; develop and deploy production joint data integration platform(s) and Department-wide acquisition visibility applications(s); and operational and algorithmic test and evaluation expertise and tools.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Acquisition Digital Transformation Program▲ 272%
FY2025 actual$17.3M
FY2026 enacted$17.3M
FY2027 request$64.4M

($15.512 million) Scaffolding and Infrastructure - Build and scale a multi-cloud joint enterprise digital infrastructure on IL-5, Il-6, and JWICS for DevSecOps and hosting digital platforms and AI tools. ($32.583 million) Data Collection, Processing, and Integration – expands data engineering, data science, and digital governance…

Read the FY2027 plan →
Congressional action

Congressional marks

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

RequestPresident's Budget
$64.4M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$64.4M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$64.4M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$72.5M +$8.1M · +13%
▲ $8.1M 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%64.4
FY2027 request100%64.4
Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

Acquisition Visibility supports the Department’s effort to implement Executive Order 14265 “Modernizing Defense Acquisitions and Spurring Innovation in the Defense Industrial Base.” By leveraging machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital tools, Acquisition Visibility will rapidly and iteratively transform the Department’s acquisition digital systems and processes with an emphasis on speed, flexibility, and execution.

Acquisition Digital Transformation Program enables two initiatives and develops and fields digital capabilities across 5 core product lines and 3 enabling lines of efforts. The program will rapidly iterate to develop and delivery capability to end users. The contracting strategy will include multiple performers on one or more OTA prototypes with common, defined success criteria. Performers that meet the success criteria and are determined to be able to effectively meet the programs production-level requirements will be selected for OTA production awards.

Project 059 — Acquisition Digital Transformation Program
  • Product Development
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FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0608648D8Z (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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