# Operational Test & Training Infrastructure

**R-2A activity** of project 644441 — Operational Test & Training Infrastructure  
**Program element:** 1206617SF — Operational Test & Training Infrastructure  
**Component:** U.S. Space Force · **Budget Activity:** 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/1206617SF/644441/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/1206617SF

> **NEW START.** $265.2M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $265.2M in FY2027, 100% of project 644441 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - Continue investments in Cyber, Electromagnetic, and Orbital ranges to improve: infrastructure; hardware; software; integrated data transport; Command, Control and Communications; sensors, surrogates, and other existing capabilities - Continue evolving fielded Electromagnetic Warfare (EW) digital training modeling & simulation (M&S) capabilities environment - Continue developing and maturing digital High-End Advanced Test, Training, and Tactics Development (HEAT3) capabilities for Joint Simulation Environment (JSE)-based digital test and training architecture - Continue development of advanced combat training capabilities, including tools and applications for training, exercises and wargames - Continue enhancing digital range capabilities via Commercial Solutions Openings (CSOs) and deliver capabilities to enhance, extend, and scale existing fielded distributed training capabilities and associated tools - Continue coordination and provisioning of near-term training and tactics solutions - Continue buildout of Integration Accelerator collaboration capability - Continue maintenance, sustainment, and tech refresh of current test capabilities - Continue distributed training capability development via Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) vendor pool to extend distributed training capabilities to additional operational units at their home stations - Continue to modify and integrate mission simulator software into the synthetic space environment to expand multi-mission training and exercise capability - Continue software development and releases of Artificial Intelligence to augment aggressors in support of training and exercises - Develop and/or modify red threat models and related training systems per operational priorities and evolving/emerging threats - Continue development of distributed enterprise cloud and data management solution

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** In FY 2027 this PE and program were created to consolidate Operational Test & Training Infrastructure (OTTI) funding previously contained in PE 1206759SF, project 664598 (National Space Test & Training Complex - NSTTC) and PE 1203174SF, project 674671 (Enterprise Training Services Development - ETSD). Prior year funding and justification narratives remain under those program (PE) justification materials.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** In FY 2027 this PE and program were created to consolidate Operational Test & Training Infrastructure (OTTI) funding previously contained in PE 1206759SF, project 664598 (National Space Test & Training Complex - NSTTC) and PE 1203174SF, project 674671 (Enterprise Training Services Development - ETSD). Prior year funding and justification narratives remain under those program (PE) justification materials.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 265.2 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 1206617SF project 644441 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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