# Project 67A018 — SF Weather Services Research

**Program element:** 1203940SF — Space Situation Awareness Operations  
**Project:** 67A018  
**Component:** U.S. Space Force  
**Appropriation:** 3620F — RDT&E, Space Force  
**Budget Activity:** 7 — Operational System Development  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/1203940SF/67A018  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/1203940SF

## Summary

Project 67A018 — SF Weather Services Research requests $21.2M in FY2027, 7.2% of the $294.9M requested for program element 1203940SF, up 597% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request. National Solar is the largest named R-3 performer at $8.0M, 38% of the project's FY2027 R-3 total.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 4.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 3.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 21.2 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 18.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 16.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 19.5 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 20.2 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 1203940SF; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 67A018 buys

This budget activity funds the operational development necessary to acquire, sustain, and modernize SF Weather Services Research capabilities in support of three lines of effort: build a more lethal force, strengthen alliances and attract new partners, and change the way we do business. To improve readiness for a more lethal force, SF Weather Services Research provides timely, accurate, resilient, and relevant environmental information to enable global battlespace situational awareness for Air Force (AF), Army, Special Operations Forces (SOF), Space Force (USSF), combatant commands, the Intelligence Community (IC), and other government agencies. SF Weather Services Research provides climate impacts and assessments, as well as space and terrestrial weather sensing, forecasting, and weather analytic capabilities, at home station and deployed, in order to deliver critical environmental intelligence in support of warfighters to gain the asymmetric advantage during the full spectrum of air and space combat operations. SF Weather Services Research decreases the risk to mission and risk to force by increasing the lethality, effectiveness, and survivability of Department of War (DoW) weapon systems. To strengthen alliances and partnerships, SF Weather Services Research development efforts integrate DoW, government agency, commercial, and international partner environmental data with AFWS information system equipment for processing, storing, exploiting, and disseminating multi-domain weather information for analysis, forecasting, mission integration, and greater interoperability. To ensure greater performance and affordability for the Department of the AF, SF Weather Services Research sensors and information systems are being modernized through improvements to architecture and system efficiency, cybersecurity, joint all-domain command and control (JADC2) and sensing grid integration, migration to cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) initiatives, and expanding agile software development, delivery, and integration practices. The AF Weather Enterprise digital transformation and cloud migration effort modernizes key capabilities providing the military advantage to accurately predict environmental impacts optimizing mission planning, targeting, weaponeering, mission execution, battle damage assessment, and space systems operations.

**R-3 lines of work:** Product Development; Management Services.

## Named R-3 performers

| Performer | $M | Share of this project's FY2027 R-3 total |
|---|---|---|
| National Solar | 8.0 | 38% |
| Peraton | 7.2 | 34% |
| Odyssey Systems | 0.6 | 2.8% |

> Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations. Shares need not reach 100% — unnamed and government work is in the denominator.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Space Weather Analysis and Forecast System (SWAFS) | 4.9 | 3.0 | 21.2 | +597% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/1203940SF/67A018/a0) |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Space Weather Analysis and Forecast System (SWAFS)

-Continue capability upgrades for the SWAFS v2.x baseline that supports the deployment of the Satellite Anomaly Assessment tool, which includes the ECP-HAS forecast model integration analysis tool. -Complete integration of tools such as the EMI-HAS forecast model upgrade integration, complete JHU-APL IDA-4D model integration, and…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/1203940SF/67A018/a0

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/1203940SF.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 1203940SF project 67A018 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="1203940SF")`.

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