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Fiscal Receipts

Countering Advanced Conventional Weapons (CACW)

FRDT&EPartial Reconciliation0301377F
What it is
Countering Advanced Conventional Weapons (CACW) — a research & development program run by Air Force.
What changed
+$283.0K FY25→26
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$0
FY25 Total
$834.0K
FY26 Request
$1.12M
FY25→26 Change
$283.0K

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? →

Budget Trajectory
FY25: $834.0KFY26: $1.12MFY25FY26
FY25
$834.0K
FY26
$1.12M
Decade view — each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
FY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY25FY26

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

SeriesFY25FY26
Enacted$834.0K
Request$1.67M$1.12M

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

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 Analysis Enterprise

Countering Advanced Conventional Weapons (CACW) investment is a Congressionally approved and OUSDI backed focused on improving Scientific and Technical Intelligence (S&TI) for the combined Defense Intelligence Enterprise (DIE) program through the accelerated creation of authoritative threat engineering analysis, weapon system models, and integrated simulation of top-priority threat scenarios. CACW's goal is to increase the overall analytic health of the DIE to meet S&TI analysis and threat Modeling and Simulation (M&S) weapons technical intelligence requirements against near peer threat competitors. CACW investments are a scalable, scenario-based approach to increase S&TI analysis and threat model development capacity across the DIE to close the intelligence gap on the understanding, characterization and impact of top priority threat systems and system-of-systems. 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 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY2024 3.868M was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY2025 5.818 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)

CACW Production Tools

Creation of advanced analytic tool and IT capabilities critical to production needs focusing on Machine Learning, operations research analysis, advanced software configuration & development, and external assistance for proper set-up and prototyping execution of system-of-systems simulations.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY25 Enacted$834.0K
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY25 Total$834.0K
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY26 Disc. Request$1.12M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY26 Total$1.12M

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

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$0$0$834.0K$1.12M$1.12M
675306: Analysis Enterprise$0$0$834.0K$1.12M$1.12M

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.

No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →