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F-47
Budget Figures
FY2026 award data is a partial year — USASpending awards are reported on a rolling basis and the fiscal year does not close until September 30. why partial FY2026 data? →
- FY24
- $2.35B
- FY25
- $2.42B
- FY26
- $3.48B
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY15 | FY16 | FY17 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $18.2M | $32.5M | $22.3M | $284.0M | $413.9M | $872.5M | $869.7M | $1.45B | $1.61B | $2.35B | ||
| Enacted | $8.83M | $167.6M | $294.7M | $429.6M | $905.0M | $902.4M | $1.52B | $1.66B | $2.33B | $2.42B | ||
| Request | $20.6M | $294.7M | $504.0M | $1.00B | $1.04B | $1.52B | $1.66B | $2.33B | $3.31B | $3.48B |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2021 book requested $1.04B for FY2021; the PB2023 book reports $869.7M actually spent — $174.3M below the request.
Program Lineage
No predecessor/successor lineage was recorded for this program element — no FY-to-FY transfer into or out of this line was stated in the ingested J-books, and none was inferred from the program structure.
Description
Mission — Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) Platform
The F-47 program is influenced by the CSAF-approved Air Superiority Enterprise Capability Collaboration Team (ECCT) Flight Plan. The program matures technology and reduces risk through development, integration, and test activities. Key NGAD attributes include enhancements in survivability, lethality, persistence, and interoperability across a range of military operations. Program activities include the employment of digital acquisitions through the application of digital engineering, agile software development, open systems architectures and digital systems infrastructure as well as the design, build, and test of full weapon systems with supporting elements. Funding provides for operational concept exploration, technology studies, multi-domain integration assessments, operational and system architecture development, maturation/risk reduction, prototyping, and Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) of F-47 and related technologies. These technologies include autonomy, weapon systems, mission systems, government referenced architectures for standards and interfaces, terrestrial systems, training, product support, integrated system concept development and demonstration, as well as activities for full weapon system design, build, test, and program management support. Program management support costs include, but are not limited to, contractor support services, civilian pay, supplies, and facility related expenses. F-47 technologies are available to other DoD systems based on emerging threats, AF priorities, and development capacity. 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 element 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605833F, or 0605898F. In FY 2024 24.850 million was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY 2025 26.584 million is forecast for civilian pay expenses in this program element.
Mission — F-47
F-47 enables Air Superiority for the Joint Force in the most challenging operational environments. Key F-47 attributes include enhancements to survivability, lethality, persistence, crewed/uncrewed teaming and interoperability across a range of military operations. Program activities include the employment of digital acquisitions through the application of digital engineering, agile software development, open systems architectures and digital systems infrastructure as well as the design, build, and test of full weapon systems with supporting elements. Funding provides for operational concept exploration, technology studies, multi-domain integration assessments, operational and system architecture development, maturation/risk reduction, prototyping, and Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) of F-47 and related technologies. These technologies include autonomy, weapon systems, mission systems, government referenced architectures for standards and interfaces, terrestrial systems, training, product support, integrated system concept development and demonstration, as well as activities for full weapon system design, build, test, and program management support. Program management support costs include, but are not limited to, contractor support services, civilian pay, supplies, and facility related expenses. F-47 technologies are available to other DoD systems based on emerging threats, AF priorities, and development capacity. 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 element 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605833F, or 0605898F. In FY 2024 24.850 million was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY 2025 26.584 million is forecast for civilian pay expenses in this program element. This effort is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P), because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.
Mission — Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA)
Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) are uncrewed weapon systems capable of enhancing crewed weapon systems ability to achieve air superiority. The program matures and leverages relevant Science and Technology investments to reduce risk by conducting targeted development, integration, and test activities. Key CCA attributes include cost of platforms, mission integrated autonomy, multi-platform interoperability, and lethality enhancement. Program activities include digital engineering, agile software development, open systems architectures, autonomy architecture, mission autonomy, crewed-uncrewed teaming, as well as the design, build, and test of full weapon systems with supporting elements. Funding provides information technology/test/training infrastructure investments, operational concept exploration, technology studies, multi-domain integration, operational assessments, architecture development, integrated weapons systems development, demonstration of air superiority related technologies, multi-level prototyping, and program management support. Program management support costs include, but are not limited to, contractor support services, civilian pay, supplies, and facility related expenses. CCA technologies are designed to become available to other DoD systems based on emerging threats, AF priorities, and development capacity. 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 element 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605833F, or 0605898F. In FY 2024 6.701M was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY 2025 9.966M is forecast for civilian pay expenses in this program element.
Mission — F-47
F-47 enables Air Superiority for the Joint Force in the most challenging operational environments. Key F-47 attributes include enhancements to survivability, lethality, persistence, crewed/uncrewed teaming and interoperability across a range of military operations. Program activities include the employment of digital acquisitions through the application of digital engineering, agile software development, open systems architectures and digital systems infrastructure as well as the design, build, and test of full weapon systems with supporting elements. Funding provides for operational concept exploration, technology studies, multi-domain integration assessments, operational and system architecture development, maturation/risk reduction, prototyping, and Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) of F-47 and related technologies. These technologies include autonomy, weapon systems, mission systems, government referenced architectures for standards and interfaces, terrestrial systems, training, product support, integrated system concept development and demonstration, as well as activities for full weapon system design, build, test, and program management support. Program management support costs include, but are not limited to, contractor support services, civilian pay, supplies, and facility related expenses. F-47 technologies are available to other DoD systems based on emerging threats, AF priorities, and development capacity. The FY 2026 request for F-47 includes 2,579,362 thousand of discretionary and 900,000 thousand of mandatory (reconciliation) for a total of 3,479,632 thousand. The mandatory funds address Air Superiority in FY 2026. Further information for this reconciliation request is provided in Section 20007 (Air Superiority) of the Reconciliation Exhibit. 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 element 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605833F, or 0605898F. This program is in Budget Activity 5, System Development and Demonstration (SDD) because it has passed Milestone B approval and is conducting engineering and manufacturing development tasks aimed at meeting validated requirements prior to full rate production.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (3)
2030+ Air Dominance
The 2030+ Air Dominance (AD) candidate concepts consist of operational analyses, threat studies, technology candidate assessments and prototyping to identify operational concepts and technologies that improve persistence, survivability, lethality, connectivity, interoperability and affordability in 2030 and beyond. These efforts will provide for contractors to conduct analyses, identify technology candidates and perform concept refinement. Studies are required to develop operational/system architectures to include family of systems and spectral dominance platforms. In addition, technical risk reduction activities will be performed to include development, integration, test and building demonstrative prototypes. The 2030+ AD working groups methodically assessed candidate concepts using USAF directives and guidance that informed the F-47 Analysis of Alternatives (AoA). Ongoing studies refine system concepts and operational/system architectures incorporating family of systems and spectral dominance platforms that may be required to inform and support strategic choices. In addition, technical risk reduction studies utilizing preliminary data from AD concept development have informed strategic USAF experimentation and prototyping efforts. Finally, technical overviews were presented to the Air Force - Scientific Advisory Board (AF-SAB) and other senior leaders.
Collaborative Combat Aircraft
The Collaborative Combat Aircraft effort includes operational analyses/studies, technology candidate assessments, development, integration, test, prototyping, and demonstrations to identify operational concepts and technologies to project air power against adversaries. Ongoing studies are conducted to refine CCA concepts as well as air superiority related technologies.
F-47
The 2030+ Air Dominance (AD) candidate concepts consist of operational analyses, threat studies, technology candidate assessments and prototyping to identify operational concepts and technologies that improve persistence, survivability, lethality, connectivity, interoperability and affordability in 2030 and beyond. These efforts will provide for contractors to conduct analyses, identify technology candidates and perform concept refinement. Studies are required to develop operational/system architectures to include family of systems and spectral dominance platforms. In addition, technical risk reduction activities will be performed to include development, integration, test and building demonstrative prototypes. The 2030+ AD working groups methodically assessed candidate concepts using USAF directives and guidance that informed the F-47 Analysis of Alternatives (AoA). Ongoing studies refine system concepts and operational/system architectures incorporating family of systems and spectral dominance platforms that may be required to inform and support strategic choices. In addition, technical risk reduction studies utilizing preliminary data from AD concept development have informed strategic USAF experimentation and prototyping efforts. Finally, technical overviews were presented to the Air Force - Scientific Advisory Board (AF-SAB) and other senior leaders.
Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)
Exhibit R-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY24 Actuals | $2.35B |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY25 Enacted | $2.42B |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY25 Total | $2.42B |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY26 Disc. Request | $2.58B |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY26 Reconciliation | $900.0M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY26 Total | $3.48B |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 646007: Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) Platform | $0 | $1.95B | $2.42B | $0 | $0 |
| Program Element | $0 | $0 | $0 | $2.58B | $2.58B |
| Program Element | $0 | $2.35B | $2.42B | $0 | $0 |
| 647123: Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) | $0 | $392.2M | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| 656009: F-47 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $2.58B | $2.58B |
No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1741 programs). why coverage is partial? →
Awards
No awards are linked to this program element at high confidence — the budget→award crosswalk only asserts links it can defend, and this line has none yet.
Lobbying Mentions
No Senate LDA lobbying filing in the tracked data mentions this program element by code or alias.
Program dossier
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Research dossiers exist for 50 of 1741 programs — the 50 largest fully J-book-detailed programs by FY2026 request. why no dossier here? →
What it is
- F-47 (program element 0207110F) is a U.S. Air Force research-and-development program funded in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force account.
- The F-47 is designed to enable air superiority for the Joint Force in the most challenging operational environments, with key attributes including enhancements to survivability, lethality, persistence, crewed/uncrewed teaming, and interoperability.
- Program activities include digital engineering, agile software development, open systems architectures, and the design, build, and test of full weapon systems, funding operational concept exploration, technology studies, prototyping, and Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) of the F-47 and related technologies.
- The F-47 program grew out of Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) Platform work, informed by the Air Force Chief of Staff-approved Air Superiority Enterprise Capability Collaboration Team Flight Plan, which matured technology and reduced risk through development, integration, and test activities.
- A related Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) effort develops uncrewed weapon systems capable of enhancing crewed aircraft's ability to achieve air superiority, emphasizing platform cost, mission-integrated autonomy, multi-platform interoperability, and lethality.
- The 2030+ Air Dominance effort conducts operational analyses, threat studies, technology assessments, and prototyping — including the analyses that informed the F-47 Analysis of Alternatives — to identify concepts and technologies that improve persistence, survivability, lethality, connectivity, interoperability, and affordability in 2030 and beyond.
Why it matters
- The program's total funding rises from $2,424,208 thousand (about $2.4 billion) in FY2025 to $3,479,362 thousand (about $3.5 billion) requested for FY2026.
- That is a year-over-year increase of $1,055,154 thousand (about $1.1 billion) from FY2025 to FY2026.
- In FY2024 the program recorded actual spending of $2,346,905 thousand (about $2.3 billion), so the FY2026 request is roughly half again as large as that recent execution level.
- The FY2026 request splits into a discretionary request of $2,579,362 thousand (about $2.6 billion) and a reconciliation (mandatory) request of $900,000 thousand (about $900 million).
- The $900,000 thousand reconciliation request is additional mandatory funding on top of the discretionary base, together making up the program's $3,479,362 thousand FY2026 total.
- The discretionary portion of the request flows through the single named F-47 project, funded at $2,579.362 million for the budget year.
- The program's own budget narrative states that the mandatory funds address Air Superiority in FY2026, with further detail provided in Section 20007 (Air Superiority) of the Reconciliation Exhibit.
Key players
- The program is run by the U.S. Air Force, with funding drawn from the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force appropriation.
- In FY2025 the program was carried under the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) Platform project, funded at $2,424.208 million that year before transitioning to the named F-47 project line in FY2026.
- The F-47 acquisition strategy uses digital acquisition — digital engineering, agile software development, and open systems architectures — with technologies made available to other Department of Defense systems based on emerging threats, Air Force priorities, and development capacity.