What project 68A035 buys
Mission Delta 2 (MD2) 2nd Sustainment Squadron is maintaining, sustaining, developing, and modernizing SDA for Guardians across MD2, USSF and other users. As a result, the Service will deliver SDA capabilities, improve readiness and operational reach of the existing force structure, and integrate Allies, partners, and commercial space to USSF units. Space Domain Awareness (SDA)/Planning/Tasking functions support the United States Space Force (USSF) and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM). Capabilities will initially be delivered to USSF Combat Forces Command (CFC) and U.S. Space Forces - Space (S4S). The SDA/Planning/Tasking software program provides a collaborative environment that will enhance and modernize SDA and Battle Management Command and Control (BMC2) capabilities; create decision-relevant views of the space and multi-domain environment; rapidly detect, track, and characterize objects of interest; identify/exploit traditional and non-traditional sources; perform space threat analysis; and enable efficient distribution of data across the Space Surveillance Network (SSN). The program maintains enterprise infrastructure, platform, and data services, and develops mission applications to enable responsive, resilient operational-level SDA/Planning/Tasking capabilities for Mission Delta 2 (MD 2), the National Space Defense Center (NSDC), Combined Space Operations Center (CSpOC), and other Command and Control (C2) centers. Employing an agile-based Rapid Delivery Framework (RDF) with a 90-day Program Increment (PI) construct, fosters a collaborative and integrated environment for the community to effectively plan and deliver C2 capabilities. The enterprise-wide system provides a common government infrastructure and processes to allow C2 capabilities at USSF operational Deltas to rapidly address the evolving and dynamic threat. The program also identifies shared/common platform, infrastructure, and data layer solutions to support open frameworks and architectures across the enterprise ground portfolio. Funding includes technical studies, development, experimentation, integration, and related support costs.
- Product Development
- Test and Evaluation
- Management Services
Project 68A035 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.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 140.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 202.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 356.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 354.0 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 333.0 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 340.0 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 345.4 |
2 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. Each describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Develop software and enabling infrastructure for: Automation and Advanced Processing: Increasing automation in observation processing, orbit determination, uncorrelated track processing, and other key areas to improve efficiency and accuracy in detecting, tracking, and identifying space objects, including closely spaced objects and those…
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