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Theater Battle Management (TBM) C4I

Air ForceRDT&EReconciledPE0207438F
What it is
Theater Battle Management (TBM) C4I (0207438F) is an Air Force research & development line funded in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force account. Its J-book detail breaks the line into 1 project.
What changed
+$2.39M FY25→26 R-1 TOA · PB2026
Who gets it
No company is linked to this line. Award records do not carry the program element, so the crosswalk is silent here — why.

Budget figures

FY24 Actuals
$6.23MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25 Total
$4.40MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26 Request
$6.79MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25→26 Change
+$2.39MR-1 TOA · PB2026
Data coverage

FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →

Budget trajectory

The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order: this line ends higher than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.
The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order: this line ends higher than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.FY24: $6.23MFY25: $4.40MFY26: $6.79MFY24FY25FY26
Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal yearAmount
FY24$6.23M
FY25$4.40M
FY26$6.79M

All series figures: R-1 TOA · PB2026

Decade view

P-1/R-1 workbook TOA basis, shown compact in $B/$M (the workbook records USD thousands); each figure cites its own President's Budget edition

8 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2019–FY2026): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.
8 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2019–FY2026): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.FY2019 actuals — PB2021 editionFY2020 actuals — PB2022 editionFY2021 actuals — PB2023 editionFY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2020 enacted — PB2021 editionFY2021 enacted — PB2022 editionFY2022 enacted — PB2023 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2021 request — PB2021 editionFY2022 request — PB2022 editionFY2023 request — PB2023 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26

The vertical scale does not start at zero: the baseline sits just below this program’s smallest year, so a low point on this line is not a small amount. Read the shape for direction and the grid below for the figures.

● actuals (line)  ·  ○ enacted  ·  ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.

Decade series values by fiscal year and President's Budget edition: one row per series (actuals, enacted, request), one column per fiscal year. Every figure opens its own citation.
SeriesFY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$0$0$7.66M$7.72M$5.65M$6.23M
Enacted–$0$7.84M$7.91M$5.85M$6.47M$4.40M
Request––$7.86M$7.91M$5.85M$6.47M$4.87M$6.79M

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $6.47M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $6.23M as actual total obligation authority — $236.0K below the request. 6.23 − 6.47 = -0.24 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.

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 — Applications Development

This budget line funds joint partner requirements of the Air Operations Center (AOC) Weapon System Modification effort. Applications Development efforts deliver capabilities identified in the 2013 Joint Command and Control Capability Development Document (CDD) and are executed under the Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) Software Acquisition Pathway Program. Applications Development provides worldwide operational capabilities for Air Force Command and Control (C2) in support of DoD, Coalition Partners, and other government agencies. These efforts focus on support to the Joint Forces Air Component Commander (JFACC), who provides air, space and cyber support to other Air FOrce and Joint Services C2 systems. This program is dependent on the All Domain Common Platform (ADCP), which provides an extensible cloud-based infrastructure and platform as a service (IaaS/PaaS) hosting platform built to deliver highly resilient mission applications and data to Airmen deployed around the world. In FY 2026, Applications Development will focus on providing necessary software capabilities to build, disseminate, and execute the Master Air Attack Plan (MAAP). Applications Development also provides an Airspace Management tool used for building airspaces, evaluating requests, and instantaneously generating the Airspace Control Order (ACO). These efforts deliver modern software for inclusion to the AOC Weapon System modifications program to replace the Master Air Attack Plan-Toolkit (MAAPTK) and components of Theater Battle Management Core System - Force Level (TBMCS FL). Efforts within this PE align with USAF investment in Mission Planning Systems (PE 0208006F), Air Operations Center (0207410F), All Domain Common Platform (0303248F), C2IMERA (0305015F/0305836F) and ABMS (0604003F) to deliver the Theater Air Planning System of Systems (TAP-SoS) architecture for the DAF BATTLE NETWORK. The FY 2026 request was reduced by -$0.015 million for Advisory and Assistance Services to promote efficiencies and advance the policies of the Administration in alignment with Executive Order 14222, "Implementing the President's Department of Government Efficiency Cost Efficiency Initiative.” This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funding would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, and 0606398F. In FY 2024 0.000 million was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY 2025 0.000 million is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (1)

C2 Applications Development

Employ agile software development methodologies to engineer, integrate, and test modern C2 software capabilities leveraging test-driven development. Provide engineering solutions, test, and deliver effective operational C2 capabilities utilizing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes.

Budget line items(workbook-cited)

P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY24 Actuals$6.23M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY25 Enacted$4.40M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY25 Total$4.40M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY26 Disc. Request$6.79M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY26 Total$6.79M

Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)

J-book detail basis (R-2/P-40, USD millions) · PB2026 — a different accounting basis from the P-1/R-1 workbook TOA above; where the two disagree, the reconciliation strip under Budget figures shows both.

Wider than this screen — swipe the table sideways for the remaining fiscal-year columns.

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$0$6.23M$4.40M$6.79M$6.79M
675218: Applications Development$0$6.23M$4.40M$6.79M$6.79M

Follow the dollar

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 312 of 1,938 programs). why coverage is partial? →

Awards

No awards are linked to this program element at high or medium 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.

Oversight

Department-level designation (not specific to this program)

GAO lists 5 high-risk areas for DOD as a whole. That designation covers the department, not Theater Battle Management (TBM) C4I. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.

Program dossier

No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,938 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →

Primary sources

Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.

Budget totals · TOA sources

Detailed budget justification

The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.