What project SF101 buys
This project provides a rapid response capability to support Special Operations Forces (SOF) programs and capabilities across the enterprise. The purpose is to correct system deficiencies, improve asset life, and enhance mission capability through the means of feasibility studies, analysis of alternatives, pre-developmental risk reduction studies, and engineering analyses. This project provides the engineering required to improve the design and performance integrity of the SOF equipment and software and to integrate disruptive “off-the-shelf” technologies to meet current and emergent capability gaps. This project also conducts risk reduction studies, analyses, and demonstrations to support emerging, time-critical equipment, weapons, and sensor enhancements.
Project SF101 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 | 19.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 17.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 16.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 19.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 19.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 19.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 20.2 |
3 accomplishments / planned programs
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. 1 of them 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.
Continue to assess concepts and prototypes that provide increased capability of SOF mobility platforms to include improvements to meet emerging threats. Assesses and evaluates advanced methods to deliver scalable and precision effects. Identifies, assesses, and evaluates improved multi-domain communications and computers that incorporate…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work Continue the development of innovative concepts, conducts experimentation to develop autonomous remotely controlled systems, solutions for contested communications and solutions for contested logistics.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase of $0.679 million supports continued integration of technology applications in support of SO-p modernization needs.
FY2026 plans — current year Continues the development of innovative concepts, conducts experimentation to develop autonomous remotely controlled systems, solutions for contested communications and solutions for contested logistics.
FY2025 accomplishments Continue the development of innovative concepts, conducts experimentation to develop hyper-enabled teams capable of conducting globally integrated special operations across all domains and identifies opportunities to insert technology to mitigate SO-p operational capability gaps.
FY2027 planned work Continue additional testing and evaluation required on various equipment items such as communications, intelligence, weapons, and operator protection planned for transition to SOF Theater Forces.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Increase of $0.092 million supports additional testing and evaluation requirements on various planned efforts.
FY2026 plans — current year Continues additional testing and evaluation required on various equipment items such as communications, intelligence, weapons, and operator protection planned for transition to SOF Theater Forces.
FY2025 accomplishments Continue additional testing and evaluation required on various equipment items such as communications, intelligence, weapons, and operator protection planned for transition to SOF Theater Forces.