Joint Staff Office of the Chief Data Officer (OCDO) Activities

TJSRDT&EPartial Reconciliation0305248J

What it is

Joint Staff Office of the Chief Data Officer (OCDO) Activities (0305248J) is a TJS 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

+$1.80M FY25→26 R-1 TOA · PB2026

Who gets it

No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals

$0P-40 detail · PB2026

FY25 Total

$12.7MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY26 Request

$14.5MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25→26 Change

+$1.80MR-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	$0P-40 detail · PB2026
FY25	$12.7MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26	$14.5MR-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

2 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2025–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 is too short to show a direction. 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	FY25	FY26
Enacted	$12.7M
Request	$12.7M	$14.5M

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 — Joint Staff Office of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer

Provides funds for the operation and support of activities directly related to the Joint Staff (JS) Office of the Chief Data Officer (OCDO) mission to enable data-centric efforts across the JS. This includes concept refinement, technology/system development, hardware/software requirements, training, and other activities necessary for OCDO to facilitate the linkages and integration of authoritative data flows between the Joint Staff, Combatant Commands (CCMDs), Services, and Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). In collaboration with each of the Joint Staff Directorates, the OCDO advances data interoperability and strengthens leadership on data governance to ensure that digital systems can fully support Combined Joint All-Domain Operations. As the Joint Staff focal point for data-centric efforts, on behalf of the Chairman, the JS OCDO also works closely with the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) to communicate and represent the Joint Staff and Chairman’s requirements necessary to develop sustained information advantage capabilities to enable senior leader decision-making and action at the speed of the problem.

Mission — Joint Staff Dashboard / CJCS Decision Support Capabilities

Data and analytics are the foundation necessary to create the critical data-driven applications and artificial intelligence (AI) systems needed to build enduring advantages for the Joint Force to remain competitive with pacing adversaries. However, recent events have demonstrated that the DoD’s capabilities in data, analytics, and AI need further development. Specifically for the Joint Staff (JS), this means developing and testing JS-specific software applications (use cases) to achieve the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s (CJCS) and the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s (VCJCS) requirement for a Senior Leader Decision Support Capabilities. The CJCS has a statutory responsibility to provide military advice to the President, the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense. These decision support capabilities and the associated dashboard interface directly support the CJCS’s military advice through interaction with integrated, real-time authoritative data, enabling data-driven decision making.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (1)

Joint Staff Dashboard / CJCS Decision Support Capabilities

The JS OCDAO, in coordination with Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer (OCDAO), will develop JS workflow automation, business intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence applications to achieve decision advantage. This includes developing and testing JS-specific software applications or use cases to support the Chairman’s statutory responsibility to provide military advice to the President, the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense. These JS Dashboard use cases will be part of the CDAO’s DoD Enterprise Application Layer interacting with the Data Integration Layer (DIL); ensuring that these applications as they are developed are fully interoperable with existing Joint and Service data analytics platforms (e.g., Advana cloud, Advana Edge, SUNet, Maven Smart Systems (MSS), and Army Vantage).

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	TJS	FY25 Enacted	$12.7M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	TJS	FY25 Total	$12.7M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	TJS	FY26 Disc. Request	$14.5M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	TJS	FY26 Total	$14.5M

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	$0	$0	$12.7M	$14.5M	$14.5M
001: Joint Staff Dashboard / CJCS Decision Support Capabilities	$0	$0	$12.7M	$14.5M	$14.5M

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

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 Joint Staff Office of the Chief Data Officer (OCDO) Activities — no program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.

No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →