# Project 65A036 — RG-XX

**Program element:** 1206425SF — Space Situation Awareness Systems  
**Project:** 65A036  
**Component:** U.S. Space Force  
**Appropriation:** 3620F — RDT&E, Space Force  
**Budget Activity:** 5 — System Development & Demonstration  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/1206425SF/65A036  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/1206425SF

## Summary

Project 65A036 — RG-XX requests $355.9M in FY2027, 27% of the $1.32B requested for program element 1206425SF — a new start, with no prior-year and no current-year money. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request, 1 new this cycle.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 355.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 791.4 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 1,089.9 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 264.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 253.7 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 1206425SF; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 65A036 buys

Space Domain Awareness (SDA) is one of five core competencies of the Space Force and is the effective identification, characterization, and understanding of any factor, passive or active, associated with the space domain that could affect space operations and thereby impact the security, safety, economy, or environment of our nation. As the foundation for space control, SDA encompasses surveillance of all space objects and activities; detailed surveillance of specific space assets; monitoring space environmental conditions; monitoring cooperative space assets; gathering indications and warning on adversary space operations; and conducting integrated command, control, communications, processing, analysis, dissemination, and archiving activities. This program element expands reconnaissance and surveillance SDA capabilities, deploying a constellation of new proliferated space vehicles (SVs), which will integrate with existing, but evolving Space Control operations. Activities funded in this program element (1206425SF) also support efforts such as engineering studies and analyses, architectural engineering studies, trade studies, technology needs forecasting, modernization initiatives, systems engineering, system development, risk mitigation, and test & evaluation, and may include prototyping and technology demonstration. RG-XX will increase SDA capabilities and capacity to detect, track, and characterize threats to high value U.S. and allied satellites. SVs will use dynamic Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO) capabilities and may include refueling capability. RG-XX will use a flexible acquisition construct enabling concurrent and rapid onboarding of multiple new SV vendors, incorporate allied nation partnerships, and leverage commercial capabilities and services. RG-XX requirements are based on a Rapid Prototyping Requirements Document (RPRD) and a classified Capability Description Document (CDD). RG-XX will provide critical Fire Control capability such as search, detect, and track objects from space-based sensors for timely custody and event detection. Reconnaissance and Surveillance from space augments and overcomes existing ground sensor limitations with timely 24-hour above-the-weather collection of satellite metric data only possible with space-based sensors.

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

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RG-XX | — | 0.0 | 355.9 | new | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/1206425SF/65A036/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.

### RG-XX — NEW START

FY 2027 will continue activities for implementation of system resiliency and situational awareness necessary to operate in the contested space domain environment. Activities may include, but are not limited to: program office support, studies, technical analysis, experimentation integration and test of command and control (C2)…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/1206425SF/65A036/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/1206425SF.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 1206425SF project 65A036 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="1206425SF")`.

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