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Fiscal Receipts

Theater Nuclear Weapon Storage & Security System

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What it is
Theater Nuclear Weapon Storage & Security System — a research & development program run by Air Force.
What changed
+$17.9M FY25→26
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$0
FY25 Total
$2.00M
FY26 Request
$19.9M
FY25→26 Change
$17.9M

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: $2.00MFY26: $19.9MFY25FY26
FY25
$2.00M
FY26
$19.9M
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$2.00M
Request$9.02M$19.9M

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 Nuclear Weapons Support

The Theater Nuclear Weapon Storage and Security System (WS3) supports the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Nuclear Deterrence Mission in Europe. The WS3 was designed in the 1980s and fielded in the 1990s. The WS3 Vault Modernization Program (VMP) modernizes storage vault components and will address the National Security Agency (NSA) requirement to modernize the vault unlock management subsystem using modern cryptographic technologies. Finally, the VMP will resolve vault sustainment issues caused by obsolescence. Additional detailed information is classified and can be provided at higher classification levels. 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 (1)

Vault Modernization Program (VMP)

Funding in FY-2025 through FY-2029 will support development, test, and evaluation of NSA-mandated crypto update and modernization of the Theater Nuclear Weapon Storage & Security System (WS3) storage vaults.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY25 Enacted$2.00M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY25 Total$2.00M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY26 Disc. Request$19.9M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY26 Total$19.9M

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

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
655708: Nuclear Weapons Support$0$0$2.00M$19.9M$19.9M
Program Element$0$0$2.00M$19.9M$19.9M

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? →