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KC-130J
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Budget figures
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
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $360.1M |
| FY25 | $294.4M |
| FY26 | $18.0M |
All series figures: P-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
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.
| Series | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $580.4M | $468.6M | $360.1M | ||
| Enacted | – | $468.6M | $241.3M | $294.4M | |
| Request | – | – | $241.3M | $33.4M | $18.0M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $241.3M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $360.1M as actual total obligation authority — $118.8M above the request. 360.1 − 241.3 = 118.8 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
Description — KC-130J
The KC-130J aircraft is an all metal, high-wing, long-range, land-based monoplane. It is designed for cargo, tanker and troop carrier operations. For tanker operations, the aircrew will consist of a pilot, co-pilot, augmented crew member and two air refueling observers. Features include wing mounted refueling pods, an internal cargo ramp and door, crew and cargo compartment pressurization, ground and in-flight refueling, thermal deicing systems, and a Heads-Up Display (HUD). It is designed to take off and land on unimproved runways. The KC-130J aircraft is powered by four Allison AE 2100D3 Turbo-Prop Engines with four six-bladed composite propellers. The cockpit includes state-of-the-art electronics with Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) instrumentation. The improved power performance of the KC-130J provides 40 percent greater range, 25 percent higher cruise ceiling, 46 percent decrease in time-to-climb, 21 percent increase in maximum speed and 41 percent decrease in maximum effort take-off run over the existing KC-130F/R/T models. The mission of the KC-130J is to provide tactical in-flight refueling and assault support transport. As a tactical transport, it is capable of conventional or aerial delivery of personnel or cargo. The aircraft is capable of carrying 92 combat troops or 64 paratroopers with equipment or 64 litters when configured as an ambulance. The aircraft is equipped for in-flight refueling to service two aircraft simultaneously and has a removable 3,600 gallon (13,627 liter) fuel tank in the cargo compartment. The KC-130J has the capability to refuel low-speed helicopters, tilt-rotor aircraft and high-speed jet aircraft. Aerial refueling of helicopters is normally conducted at 6,000 feet or below, at an airspeed of 115 KTS TAS and requires a ground change of the refueling basket. In response to the 2018 National Defense Strategy, the Marine Corps has refocused on potential threats in the Indo-Pacific region as an integral partner of the nation's naval expeditionary force and is implementing the Force Design plan. Included in that plan is the increase in VMGR capacity and the activation of a new KC-130J squadron at MCB Hawaii from FY2023-FY2026. In May 2024 the USMC updated the Program of Record (POR) quantity from 86 to 95 KC-130Js to account for attrition aircraft. The total KC-130J POR is increased to 120 aircraft (95 USMC, 25 USN). 1. Initial spares Prior Year total = $338.380M; Initial spares TC = $288.570M; Total Initial Spares = $686.437M
Justification
Justification — KC-130J
FY2026 funding supports production line Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) and support costs related to aircraft delivery. DMSMS is required to fund USMC/USNR shared costs with USAF to incorporate component redesigns into the production baseline affecting USMC/USNR aircraft deliveries through program completion. FY 2026 amount reflects estimated USMC/USNR shared costs in support of USAF contracting strategy. This budget supports aircraft delivery orders through via the USAF as the lead procurement agency.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit P-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aircraft Procurement, Navy | N | FY24 Actuals | $360.1M |
| Aircraft Procurement, Navy | N | FY25 Enacted | $294.4M |
| Aircraft Procurement, Navy | N | FY26 Disc. Request | $18.0M |
| Aircraft Procurement, Navy | N | FY26 Total | $18.0M |
Exhibit P-1R
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aircraft Procurement, Navy | N | FY24 Actuals | $360.1M |
| Aircraft Procurement, Navy | N | FY25 Enacted | $294.4M |
| Aircraft Procurement, Navy | N | FY 2026 request | $18.0M |
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 | $6.67B | $360.1M | $294.4M | $18.0M | $18.0M |
Follow the dollar
Appropriation → program element → top high-confidence awards → recipient families → congressional districts.
Follow-the-dollar covers 312 of 1,938 programs — only high-confidence budget→award links are shown. why coverage is partial? →
The diagram illustrates the cited table below — amounts shown in the diagram are transaction sums per award (no citation chips); the per-district obligations in the table cite USAspending queries.
| District | Program obligations |
|---|---|
| GA-11 | $254.2M |
Related awards
Award linkage is shown for 32 of 200 profiled companies — high- and medium-confidence USAspending matches, each row labeled; medium is the weaker evidence. why partial award coverage? →
Rows marked medium rest on evidence weaker than a program-level match, and of more than one kind. An account-based row, where the award drew from the same appropriation account as this program, is an association, not evidence that this program paid for the contract. Where the evidence is instead an FPDS acquisition-program tag or a subaward description, the program is established but which of its budget lines paid is not. An announcement link a recorded review did not leave standing is medium too. Only high rows rest on the contract naming this program with a recorded review upholding it and no recorded rejection or refutation applying.
| Recipient | PIID | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP | FA862511C6597 | high |
| SIERRA NEVADA COMPANY, LLC | N0042120F0229 | medium |
Contractor concentration
No concentration index is published for this line. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. An index below that floor is a fact about the sample, not about the market. Whatever further links this line carries are medium-confidence, and what each medium evidence path does and does not establish is set out in the methodology. Both bases are in the downloadable warehouse.
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 KC-130J. 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
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O338,O339
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O336,O337,O338
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O338,O339,O341
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1R) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1R · N214
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_P-1R_Procurement.xlsx.
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.