Joint Warfighting Program

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals

$2.65M

FY25 Total

$2.68M

FY26 Request

$945.0K

FY25→26 Change

-$1.74M

Budget Trajectory

FY24: $2.65M
FY25: $2.68M
FY26: $945.0K

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 Line Items(workbook-cited)

Exhibit R-1

Account	Org	Type	Amount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	OSD	FY24 Actuals	$2.65M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	OSD	FY25 Enacted	$2.68M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	OSD	FY25 Total	$2.68M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	OSD	FY26 Disc. Request	$945.0K
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	OSD	FY26 Total	$945.0K

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

Project	All Prior Years	FY24 Actuals	FY25 Total	FY26 Base	FY26 Request
727: Joint Warfighting	$61.1M	$2.65M	$2.68M	$945.0K	$945.0K
Program Element	$61.1M	$2.65M	$2.68M	$945.0K	$945.0K

Program Narratives

Mission— Joint Warfighting Program (JWP)

The Joint Warfighting Program (JWP) supports the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition (ASD(A))'s responsibilities for acquisition and portfolio management. The JWP underwrites analyses, studies, performs limited scope experiments, wargaming, and partnerships that define joint capability gaps and develops credible requirements for follow-on acquisition efforts. These analyses and assessments deliver independent perspectives on potential remedies to align acquisition investments and solutions for joint capability gaps created by future warfighting environments and emerging threats. The JWP supports mission engineering integration management, as well as other high priority emerging issues requiring independent analysis to inform acquisition decisions that impact National Security.

Mission— Joint Warfighting

The Joint Warfighting Program (JWP) supports the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Acquisition (ASD(A))'s responsibilities for acquisition and portfolio management. The JWP underwrites analyses, studies, performs limited scope experiments, wargaming, and partnerships that define joint capability gaps and develops credible requirements for follow-on acquisition efforts. These analyses and assessments deliver independent perspectives on potential remedies to align acquisition investments and solutions for joint capability gaps created by future warfighting environments and emerging threats. The JWP supports mission engineering integration management, as well as other high priority emerging issues requiring independent analysis to inform acquisition decisions that impact National Security. Anticipated Impact: Provides analytical support for acquisition efforts for ASD(A) staff elements and joint customers. It promotes analyses and assessments for acquisition insights and decisions focused on capability development serving the needs of joint forces and the warfighter.

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (1)

Acquisition Analysis for Joint Capability Requirements

(FY 2024 Accomplishments): - Continued acquisition analyses through a portfolio management lens to address joint warfighting mission areas critical to national defense. Major focus areas are: - Mission Thread Analysis: Continue development of a Digital Engineering environment and methodology to automate, simplify, and integrate Mission Engineering. - Continue efforts to effectively implement enterprise Capability Portfolio Management to align strategic efforts and optimize capability investments across the Department. - Continue assessment of the status of execution phase activities and challenges in costing an agile software program, flexibility and extensibility of the technical architecture, software development control processes, and sufficiency of mechanisms used to map requirements and monitor execution progress to product roadmaps. Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) Acquisition Analysis: This portfolio review focused on Long Range Fires in the INDOPACOM with a focus consideration for Joint All Domain Command and Control enablers. Efforts analyzed the health of essential services required to create and sustain JADC2 capabilities and kill webs to support current Joint Force Operating Scenarios. The review analyzed select CJADC2 enabling systems for the health of the program and assess possible replacement systems. Study on MTA / OTA Utilization: Conducted a Congressionally-mandated study and report on the Utilization of Middle Tier of Acquisitions and Other Transaction Authority Across the Department to assess (1) data on the production OTA and MTA contracts across the Department by service and by product-type; (2) what products and services the Department is procuring using OTAs and MTAs; (3) composition of the entities the Department is contract with using OTAs and MTAs, including size (revenue and employees), type (filing status), geography, and industry; (4) data on the trends in defense OTA and MTA obligations by service and buyer for the past 5 years; (5) data on the competition for production OTA and MTA contracts for each fiscal year beginning with fiscal year 2018; and (6) data on trends in OTA and MTA production contracts transitions to programs of record. Pilot Alternative Requirements Approval Process.