RDT&E Project · President's Budget PB2027

Joint Staff Live, Virtual and Constructive (JLVC) Modernization

FY2027 Request
$62.7M
▼ 10% vs FY2026
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Project 779 — Joint Staff Live, Virtual and Constructive (JLVC) Modernization requests $62.7M in FY2027, 69% of the $90.4M requested for program element 0804768J, down 10% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

FY2027 Request
$62.7M
▼ 10% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$69.6M
▼ 34% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$104.8M
Prior year
Project detail

What project 779 buys

The Joint Live, Virtual and Constructive (JLVC) Modernization project was developed to address the joint operational training gaps identified in the 2022 China Task Force: Inability of current JLVC capabilities to replicate peer competitor capabilities/capacity at the appropriate classification levels, train to Joint Warfighting Concept (JWC) 3.0/4.0-identified Key Operational Problems (KOP) and Concept Required Capabilities (CRC) with existing JLVC training capability and Global Joint Training Infrastructure (GJTI). JLVC Modernization funding will be utilized to develop core data standardization, non-kinetic effects, exercise control, and fully informed simulation environment within the JLVC training capability while investing in Service and Combat Support Agency corresponding JLVC-compliant simulation all-domain capabilities. Additionally, JLVC Modernization funds will invest in rapid capability advancement via Industry and Academia, primarily through other transaction authorities (OTA) vehicles, to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) for a wide range of JLVC applications, from software integration, test and interoperability, scenario generation to AI-powered After-Action Review (AAR) and analysis.

Funding trajectory

Project 779 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.

2550751000104.8FY25ACTUAL69.6FY26ENACTED62.7FY27REQUEST67.6FY2868.4FY2972.0FY3071.8FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual104.8
FY2026Enacted69.6
FY2027Request62.7
FY2028Outyear67.6
FY2029Outyear68.4
FY2030Outyear72.0
FY2031Outyear71.8
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$104.8M
FY2026 enacted$69.6M
FY2027 request$62.7M

The JLVC Modernization project effort will continue development and fund additional Service and Combat Support Agency model improvements in all six LOEs with a goal of delivering capability to support ELITE CONSTELLATION 28 and all FY 2028 Tier 1 CCMD exercises. Key milestones and plans per LOE for FY 2028: LOE 1 (Fully Informed…

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