What project 674567 buys
Project 674567, Modeling & Simulation Foundations, develops and supports a software tool named Air, Space and Cyberspace Collaborative Environment - Information Operations Suite (ACE-IOS). ACE-IOS is used during major theater exercises to provide realistic intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), electronic warfare (EW), information operations (IO), and cyber effects simulation. ACE-IOS is part of the cyber live-virtual-constructive (LVC) environments for use during Joint training of offensive and defensive ISR/cyber capabilities for the USAF, DoW, select coalition, and national agencies. ACE-IOS is also used at Air Force and Joint ISR operational training, conducted by the AF simulation centers worldwide. Warfighters train using ACE-IOS models and simulations with specific extensions in support of the United States Air Force (USAF) ISR schoolhouse. Robust ACE-IOS modernization is imperative to ensure that air, space, and cyberspace training and mission rehearsal activities can provide warfighters with realistic, interoperable, and readily available tools, data, and services. Planned ACE-IOS enhancements support of the users at mod-sim centers for multi domain capability and the USAF ISR schoolhouse. Specific cyber effects software extensions are required for warfighter training and exercising of tactical cyber mission forces (CMF).
- Product Development
- Management Services
Project 674567 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.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 9.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 17.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 11.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 12.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 12.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 12.6 |
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.
- Will deliver continued annual ACE-IOS version & deploy operational software modifications to include fully containerized ACE-IOS suite - Will start new ACE-IOS agile development providing modernized model and simulation updates for Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project 674567
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.