What project 645620 buys
Project 645620, Digital Engineering (DE), is delivering the Digital Engineering Ecosystem (DEE). DEE is a cloud-based, remotely accessible, Multi-Level-Security (MLS) suite of applications, environments, and infrastructure that is easily scalable and provides the means to develop capabilities, store, access, architect, analyze, and visualize data and models throughout the acquisition life cycle, from requirements planning, development, and production, through sustainment. Digital Engineering (DE) is one of four United States Space Force's (USSF) Focus areas in the Service's digital transformation and is a key enabler. The Space Force was born as a digitally driven organization to meet the need to respond faster to global threats and to act as a force multiplier for the lean Service. The "USSF Vision for a Digital Service," May 2021, signed by the Chief of Space Operations, states that "A key aim of [Digital Engineering] is to manage the complexity of contemporary weapon system acquisition as well as accelerate and modernize the entire capability development lifecycle—from conception to deployment to operations and sustainment.” In support of this vision, this project also funds science, technology, and research study efforts supporting critical operational challenges and collaborating on fundamental advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI). These efforts include creating new algorithms, technologies, analysis tools, and solutions, and informs Department of War decision making on future force structures and capabilities. In one line of effort, this project funds a variety of graduate and post-graduate studies, projects and algorithms to operationalize AI by addressing senior leader sponsored, real-world challenges in Space Domain Awareness (SDA), Command & Control (C2), Advanced Space Training and other missions using the Department of the Air Force-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AI Accelerator. This line of effort has and will continue to transition AI algorithms and tools to USSF operational units. In another line of effort, this project improves how space forces are represented and modeled in Joint and other Services' wargaming and analysis to inform their force structure decisions and operational concepts. The USSF Digital Engineering Ecosystem (DEE) stakeholders are from across the capability development lifecycle.
- Product Development
- Management Services
Project 645620 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 | 41.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 44.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 46.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 47.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 43.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 44.5 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 45.4 |
2 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.
Supporting an enterprise DEE architecture. Continue to prototype, develop, test and establish the Secure Facility, networks and systems, tools, and applications hosted on hybrid cloud platform for cloud-computing and database storage. Integrating with USAF Joint Simulation Environment (JSE). Continue integration and leverage Operational…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work Continue partnership with MIT AI Accelerator to fund six graduate scholars and one support contractor at MIT to advance AI integration into high-priority functions like SDA, C2, advanced training, TTPs, etc. Investigate additional technical studies and research based on findings from Space Futures workshops, Center for Naval Analysis reports, MIT LL research, and other sources to provide additional insights into resilient and assured space capabilities. Fund new studies related to emerging technologies. Support interagency science and technology (S&T) partnerships focused on key space technology categories of overlapping interest among the partner organizations. These efforts support…
FY2026 to FY2027 change FY27 increase of $1.012 million is to support studies related to emerging technologies.
FY2026 plans — current year Continue partnership with MIT AI Accelerator to fund six graduate scholars and one support contractor at MIT to advance AI integration into high-priority functions like SDA, C2, advanced training, TTPs, etc. Investigate additional technical studies and research based on findings from Space Futures workshops, Center for Naval Analysis reports, MIT LL research, and other sources to provide additional insights into resilient and assured space capabilities. Fund new studies related to emerging technologies. Support interagency science and technology (S&T) partnerships focused on key space technology categories of overlapping interest among the partner organizations. These efforts support…