What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 67A011 of PE 1203174SF. 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.
Continue supporting the SpOC field command to provide data-driven recommendations and solutions that drive assessment strategy development and analysis for contingency planned force structure for the USSF. The funds will also support space capability development and increase strategic responsiveness with quick-turn senior leader ops assessment. Specifically, funds will support: - Deploying campaign and mission area tools. - Integrating into major theater exercise and operations to provide SpOC/CC, C-FLDCOMS, and CCMDs with the status of space forces in near real-time. - Expand SAP/SAR standalone infrastructure to support fully articulated space effects in AFSIM (mission-level) and STORM (campaign-level) models. - Continuing SPAFORGEN assessment across 22 tactical units collecting, distilling, and analyzing after action reports and mission reports from committed ops crews. Analysis will inform sustainment and programming efforts across the mission areas. - Continue equipping Guardians in MD 2, DEL 9 and other SpOC units with analyses and tool development provided on tactically relevant timelines, enabling SpOC operators to execute their mission. These analyses and tools focus on Space Domain Awareness (SDA), including detecting, characterizing, attributing, predicting, and targeting activities in the space domain to inform decision making across Missile Warning (MW), Command and Control (C2), Space Control, Orbital Warfare (OW), and other mission areas. - Continue to ensure that our current and future Space Domain Awareness (SDA) systems are providing accurate data through evaluation of operational SDA sensors data and validation of SDA & C2 programs of record. - Provide interoperable astrodynamics software for the entire SDA enterprise via the Astrodynamic Standards (AstroStds). The AstroStds are a suite of verified and validated algorithms, designed to function like the operational Space Domain Awareness (SDA) algorithms used by Mission Delta 2 (SPADOC, ASW, CAVENet/SMP, & ATLAS) and built for easy integration with practically any programming language. The AstroStds libraries are currently released as no cost Government Off The Shelf (GOTS) products to qualified DOW contractors and U.S. Government users and support a wide variety of efforts, including: DARC (Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability), GEODSS (Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance), Space Fence, ISSA (Integrated Solutions for Situational Awareness), projects within AFRL (Air Force Research Laboratories), and many others. - Deliver SpOC/CC's automated SPAFORGEN Assessments Dashboard. - Initiate annual look-back analysis of Operational Capability/System Capability rates and impacts to mission. Correlate findings with relevant OPLANs to identify hidden risks and/or update relevant campaign analyses. - Develop rules-based automated decision support categories of impact of OPSCAP/SYSCAP statuses to mission risk/performance. - Enhance FY25 work on automated topic extraction to include sentiment analysis. Deliberately collect, categorize, and train model on human-derived sentiments for Defense Readiness Reporting System and end-of-commit crew survey responses. Post validation, apply sentiment analysis to various text-based responses to accelerate assessment-related activities. - Support senior leadership requests for operational analysis and assessments as needed.
Increase due to inflation rate adjustment.
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.
Continue supporting the SpOC field command to provide data-driven recommendations and solutions that drive assessment strategy development and analysis for contingency planned force structure for the USSF. The funds will also support space capability development and increase strategic responsiveness with quick-turn senior leader ops assessment. Specifically, funds will support: - Deploying campaign and mission area tools. - Integrating into major theater exercise and operations to provide SpOC/CC, C-FLDCOMS, and CCMDs with the status of space forces in near real-time. - Building SAP/SAR standalone infrastructure to support fully articulated space effects in AFSIM (mission-level) and STORM (campaign-level) models. - Continuing SPAFORGEN assessment across 22 tactical units collecting, distilling, and analyzing after action reports and mission reports from committed ops crews. Analysis will inform sustainment and programming efforts across the mission areas. - Continuing to support MD 2, DEL 9 and other SpOC units with analyses and tool development provided on tactically relevant timelines, enabling SpOC operators to execute their mission. - Deliver SpOC/CC's automated SPAFORGEN Assessments Dashboard. - Execute analysis of Delta 4's network infrastructure to identify critical points of failure that may force or impact Continuity of Operation plans. As able, expand to include Delta 8 with remaining deltas to follow in subsequent years. - Execute min-cut analysis of Delta 4's network infrastructure to identify critical points of failure that may force or impact Continuity of Operation plans. As able, expand to include Delta 8 with remaining deltas to follow in subsequent years. - Initiate annual look-back analysis of Operational Capability/System Capability rates and impacts to mission. Correlate findings with relevant OPLANs to identify hidden risks and/or update relevant campaign analyses. - Develop rules-based automated decision support categories of impact of OPSCAP/SYSCAP statuses to mission risk/performance. - Enhance FY25 work on automated topic extraction to include sentiment analysis. Deliberately collect, categorize, and train model on human-derived sentiments for Defense Readiness Reporting System and end-of-commit crew survey responses. Post validation, apply sentiment analysis to various text-based responses to accelerate assessment-related activities. - Support senior leadership requests for operational analysis and assessments as needed.
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.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 9.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 10.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.5 |
This activity is 100% of project 67A011's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 1203174SF'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.
1 activity in project 67A011
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.