What project S875 buys
This project supports the development, rapid prototyping, integration, automation, and testing of the AC-130J and MC-130J aircraft. The AC-130J Ghostrider provides close air support (CAS), air interdiction, and armed reconnaissance in support of special operations and conventional forces in contested and degraded environments. The MC-130J Commando II provides clandestine, or low visibility, single or multiship, low-level infiltration (infil), exfiltration (exfil), and resupply of Special Operations Forces (SOF), by airdrop or airland and air refueling missions for special operations helicopters and tiltrotor aircraft, intruding politically sensitive or hostile territories. Incremental upgrade and agile software delivery approaches will be used to rapidly prototype, integrate and mature SOF capabilities onto the AC-130J and MC-130J aircraft. Capability Release Two (CR2) enhances SOF efficiency by building on Capability Release One (CR1) and improving the Special Mission Systems (SMS) and Defensive System Upgrade (DSU). Key CR2 systems such as Terrain Following (TF)/Terrain Avoidance (TA) radar, Airborne Mission Networking (AbMN), and Electronic Warfare (EW)/Radio Frequency Countermeasures (RFCM) are critical for USSOCOM's contested infil/exfil, battlefield management, and aircraft survivability missions. Additionally, Capability Release Three (CR3) builds upon the CR2 configuration through integration of an enhanced Tactical Flight Management System (TFMS), Tactical Mission Route Replanner (TMRR)/Auto-Route Replanner (ARR), integrated Defensive Countermeasure (DCM) Suite implemented in alignment to the Open Mission Systems (OMS) standard reference architecture and hosted on an upgraded Next Generation SMS. Efforts like Integrated Tactical Mission Systems (ITMS) in CR3 provide critical automation and integration of SOF Tactical Mission Systems (TMS), including navigation, communication, precision fire control and defensive systems required for safe flight in AC-130J and MC-130J aircraft. Requirements include upgrades to integrate and automate SOF TMS such as AbMN interoperability, data fusion and improved situational awareness, improved threat detection and avoidance, integrated TF / TA and Silent Knight Radar (SKR) improvements, DCM suite, Precision Strike Package (PSP) interoperability, integrated EW, and embedded training.
- Product Development
- Support
- Test and Evaluation
Project S875 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 | 60.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 14.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 17.5 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 17.9 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 18.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 18.6 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 19.0 |
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.
Completion of initial Federated on-aircraft ARR capability integration. Continues development, demonstration, and test of integration of new and existing systems into a MOSA aligned to the OMS reference architecture for both AC-130J and MC-130J. Continue capability maturation and testing of software services for TFMS and ARR products to…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project S875
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.