Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN)

DISARDT&EPartial Reconciliation0303131K

What it is

Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN) (0303131K) is a DISA research & development line funded in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide account. Its J-book detail breaks the line into 1 project.

What changed

+$128.0K FY25→26 R-1 TOA · PB2026

Who gets it

No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals

$5.04MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25 Total

$4.99MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY26 Request

$5.11MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25→26 Change

+$128.0KR-1 TOA · PB2026

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

The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order so the direction of travel is readable at a glance: 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.

Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal year	Amount
FY24	$5.04M
FY25	$4.99M
FY26	$5.11M

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

12 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2015–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 falls across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.

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.
Series	FY15	FY16	FY17	FY18	FY19	FY20	FY21	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26
Actuals	$12.7M	$13.4M	$12.3M	$15.9M	$17.6M	$17.7M	$5.39M	$4.89M	$5.75M	$5.04M
Enacted		$13.7M	$12.2M	$15.9M	$17.6M	$17.4M	$5.56M	$4.89M	$5.75M	$5.04M	$4.99M
Request			$12.2M	$15.9M	$17.6M	$17.4M	$5.56M	$4.89M	$5.75M	$5.04M	$4.99M	$5.11M

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

Asked vs spent: the PB2020 book requested $17.4M for FY2020; the PB2022 book reported $17.7M as actual total obligation authority — $316.0K above the request. 17.7 − 17.4 = 0.3 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 — Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN)

Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN) provides the Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications (NC3) Engineer with a variety of services. MEECN equips the NC3 Engineer with planning, systems analysis, operational assessments, systems engineering, and architectural and concept development. Through the National Military Command System, the NC3 System provides connectivity between the President and the Secretary of Defense to critical nuclear execution forces (spanning both “homeland-to-homeland” and theater nuclear war). MEECN includes the Emergency Action Message dissemination systems and the systems used for integrated Tactical Warning/Attack Assessment, presidential decision-making conferencing, force report back, re-targeting, force management, and requests for permission nuclear weapons use. These efforts assure positive control of nuclear forces and connectivity between the Secretary of Defense and military forces. They also help allow the President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Combatant Commands to communicate and make more informed decisions. MEECN ensures U.S. national leadership has proper command and control of military forces during national security emergencies, including the possibility of nuclear war.

Mission — Special Projects

The mission is performing classified work. All aspects of this project are classified and require special access. Detailed information on this project is not contained in this document.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (1)

Special Projects

Program is classified. Details are available on request.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

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

Exhibit R-1

Account	Org	Type	Amount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	DISA	FY24 Actuals	$5.04M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	DISA	FY25 Enacted	$4.99M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	DISA	FY25 Total	$4.99M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	DISA	FY26 Disc. Request	$5.11M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	DISA	FY26 Total	$5.11M

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.

Project	All Prior Years	FY24 Actuals	FY25 Total	FY26 Base	FY26 Request
Program Element	$98.4M	$5.04M	$4.99M	$5.11M	$5.11M
T64: Special Projects	$98.4M	$5.04M	$4.99M	$5.11M	$5.11M

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1,741 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

Showing 25 of 43 from the Senate LDA disclosure database.

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