Project 643733
$81.9MFY2027 request ▲ 108%PTW Over Commercial
FY2025 actual$51.3M
FY2026 enacted$39.4M
FY2027 request$81.9M
Product DevelopmentManagement Services
FY2027 Request
$155.9M
▲ 61% vs FY2026
House approps mark
$135.9M
▼ $20.0M vs request
FY2026 Enacted
$96.6M
In law
Roll-up of 2 projects. Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it.
For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Space Force is requesting $155.9M for Protected Tactical Enterprise Service (PTES) under RDT&E program element 1206760SF, up 61% over FY2026. In the FY2027 defense authorization, House approps moved to cut it to $135.9M.
Funding trajectory
Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP) House approps mark
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 74.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 96.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 155.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 87.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 86.1 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 87.7 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 89.4 |
Where it sits
Acquisition lifecycle
This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes.
Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Complete
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Current
Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element
2 projects roll up into PE 1206760SF
Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year. This PE moves 61% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.
Project 643726
$74.0MFY2027 request ▲ 29%PTW Over WGS
FY2025 actual$23.5M
FY2026 enacted$57.3M
FY2027 request$74.0M
Product DevelopmentTest and EvaluationManagement Services
Congressional action
The request is contested
Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.
RequestPresident's Budget
$155.9M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$155.9M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$155.9M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$135.9M −$20.0M · −13%
▲ $20.0M chamber gap — unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Who's building it
Where the FY2027 request goes
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit, resolved into industry, government-lab, and unspecified shares. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.
Boeing
$58.4M · 37%
CSCO
$18.8M · 12%
| Where FY2027 funding flows | Share | $M |
|---|---|---|
| Industry primes | 50% | 77.2 |
| Other / unspecified | 50% | 78.7 |
| FY2027 request | 100% | 155.9 |
Program detail
Mission & acquisition strategy
USSF is developing the Protected Tactical Enterprise Service (PTES) ground system for the United States and Allies within the mission area of Satellite Communications. As a result, the Service will improve battle management of all weapon systems, improve readiness and operational reach of existing force structure, augment, supplement, and/or integrate Allies, partners, and commercial space to USSF units, and improve resilience of infrastructure, equipment, and personnel. The global threat of electronic warfare attacks against space systems will expand in the coming years in both number and types of weapons.
USSF is developing the PTS Family of Systems (FoS) in an evolutionary manner to introduce Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW) capabilities providing anti-jam (AJ) communications via military and commercial satellite systems for tactical users in all Services, initially providing service over the existing military Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system and then adding commercial and purpose-built Protected Tactical SATCOM satellites. The PTES Program was designated initially as a Rapid Prototyping effort in June 2018 from the NDAA for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114-92) under Middle Tier of Acquisitions (MTA) for Rapid Prototyping/ Rapid Fielding (Section 804) to kick off the design, development, integration and testing with PTW service via WGS.
Project 643733, 643726 — PTW Over Commercial
- Product Development
- Management Services
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Provenance
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Sources
FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 1206760SF (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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/programs/1206760SF.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.com → budget_get_program_element, budget_get_cong_marksFY2027 Request
$81.9M
▲ 108% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$39.4M
▼ 23% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$51.3M
Prior year
PTW Over Commercial — one RDT&E project inside PE 1206760SF. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 643733 — PTW Over Commercial — requests $81.9M in FY2027, 53% of the $155.9M requested for program element 1206760SF. Year over year it grows 108% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 643733 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 51.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 39.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 81.9 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 80.4 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 79.4 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 80.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 82.4 |
Inside the project
2 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
FY2025 actual$50.2M
FY2026 enacted$8.2M
FY2027 request$18.8M
Complete site preparation, surveys, installation, test and accreditation activities necessary to complete teleports within the mPOWER effort. Activities may include, but are not limited to program office support, studies, technical analysis, experimentation, prototyping, and activities that may leverage commercial and international…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2025 actual$1.1M
FY2026 enacted$31.2M
FY2027 request$63.1M
Continue to develop requirements, acquisition strategy, and architecture for enabling PTW over commercial constellations. Award of a contract to enhance the systems developed in the PTW over WGS effort to enable PTW over commercial constellations. Rapidly respond to implement system resiliency and situational awareness necessary to…
Read the FY2027 plan →Who's building it
Named performers on project 643733
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.
CSCO
$18.8M · 23%
Project detail
What project 643733 buys
PTW over Commercial (PTWoC) Initial Operational Capability (IOC) is targeted for when Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW) operations are provided to users via a single Joint Hub over one commercial satellite, or International Partner (IP) satellite, including full Mission Management System (MMS) and Key Management System (KMS) support functions. PTWoC is expected to reach Full Operational Capability (FOC) after providing the ability to support geostationary, medium earth or highly inclined orbit PTW satellite communications from nine separate locations and for all equatorial longitudes. Highly inclined orbits are necessary in order to provide SATCOM coverage over the Earth's polar regions. Research, Development, Test & Evaluation funding is required for architecture development, acquisition strategy development, system requirements and system trades analysis, engineering, manufacturing, software development, and test and evaluation of PTES systems and segments. Initial PTWoC efforts are focused on providing additional, cost-effective SATCOM capacity to Joint and Allied warfighters via an international partnership with Luxembourg. Future efforts will focus on enabling Protected Tactical Waveform SATCOM operations over the O3b mPOWER Medium Earth Orbit constellation, as well as over commercial SATCOM constellations in other orbits. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 1206392SF and 1206398SF.
R-3 lines of work
- Product Development
- Management Services
FY2027 Request
$74.0M
▲ 29% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$57.3M
▲ 143% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$23.5M
Prior year
PTW Over WGS — one RDT&E project inside PE 1206760SF. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project 643726 — PTW Over WGS — requests $74.0M in FY2027, 47% of the $155.9M requested for program element 1206760SF. Year over year it grows 29% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project 643726 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 23.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 57.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 74.0 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 6.7 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 6.8 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 6.9 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 7.0 |
Inside the project
2 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
FY2025 actual$15.5M
FY2026 enacted$34.0M
FY2027 request$58.4M
Continue development of software focused on initial capability delivery and develop fixes for discrepancies identified in test and evaluation activities in order to achieve IOC. Continue development to FOC delivery. Implement system resiliency, cyber resiliency, and crypto standards necessary to operate in the contested space and cyber…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2025 actual$8.0M
FY2026 enacted$23.2M
FY2027 request$15.6M
Continue integration and test towards Initial Operational Capability and Full Operational Capability. Perform test and integration activities with PTW-capable modems necessary to expand PTW capability to other Services and user groups. Witness and support PTES integration and test events, including validation and verification activities…
Read the FY2027 plan →Who's building it
Named performers on project 643726
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.
Boeing
$58.4M · 79%
Project detail
What project 643726 buys
Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW) over Wideband Global Satellite (WGS) Initial Operational Capability (IOC) is expected in FY 2027. IOC will be achieved through Joint Hub (JH) installation at two WGS teleport sites at separate locations, which utilize one WGS satellite, in addition to nominal operations using the PTES Mission Management System (MMS) and Key Management System (KMS). Full Operational Capability (FOC) is projected for FY 2028, at which time PTES will provide worldwide PTW operations using JHs installed in at least eight different WGS teleport sites and utilizing ten WGS satellites. Research, Development, Test & Evaluation funding is required for continued architecture development, software development, and test and evaluation of PTES systems and segments. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 1206392SF and 1206398SF.
R-3 lines of work
- Product Development
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services