R-2A Activity · President's Budget PB2027

Air, Space and Cyberspace Constructive Environment - Information Operations Suite (ACE-IOS)

FY2027 Request
$11.3M
▼ 34% vs FY2026
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This activity requests $11.3M in FY2027, 100% of project 674567, down 34% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

FY2027 Request
$11.3M
▼ 34% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$17.3M
▲ 92% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$9.0M
Prior year
Planned work

What the FY2027 request buys

Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 674567 of PE 0801380F. 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.

FY2027 planned work

- 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 Sensitive Compartmented Information (C5ISR SCI) level training for Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) with the fielding of new cross domain tools; enhanced non kinetic, enhanced Electronic Warfare (EW) training tools; and new Air Force (AF) ISR tools for the schoolhouse - Will update tool sets based on operational needs to deliver more realistic training in support of Joint/Combined Forces Air Component Commander (JFACC/CFACC) operations worldwide - Will enhance fidelity of Mission Reporting Simulation, and upgrade Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Measurement and Signature intelligence (MASINT), and Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) Joint Training for the Air Operations Center Weapon System

FY2026 to FY2027 change

FY 2027 funding decreases to support higher Department of War priorities. Remaining funds required to deliver more realistic and comprehensive training required to simulate the threats, complexity, and scale of a modern war to the replacing outdated models and databases. This supports global exercises, to include those supporting United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) and homeland defense missions.

Before the request year

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.

FY2026 plans — current year

Delivered ACE-IOS version & deploy operational software modifications - Started new ACE-IOS agile development providing modernized model and simulation updates for C5ISR training - Developed and tested cross domain solution to connect to JWICS, Coalition, and SIPR domains for integrated AF CCMD training - Updated tool sets based on operational needs to deliver realistic training in support of Joint/Combined Forces Air Component Commander (JFACC/CFACC) operations

Money

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.

09.0FY25ACTUAL17.3FY26ENACTED11.3FY27REQUEST
Actual Enacted Request
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual9.0
FY2026Enacted17.3
FY2027Request11.3

This activity is 100% of project 674567's FY2027 request and 48% of PE 0801380F'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.

Where this sits

1 activity in project 674567

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.

Air, Space and Cyberspace Constructive Environment - Information Operations Suite (ACE-IOS) — this activity$11.3M ▼ 34%
Source
FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibit R-2A · PE 0801380F, project 674567 (President's Budget PB2027). Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, never on an activity.
Machine access
Markdown twin /programs/0801380F/674567/a0.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.combudget_get_activity