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Joint Capability Experimentation
Budget Figures
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? →
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $11.9M |
| FY25 | $12.4M |
| FY26 | $13.8M |
All series figures: R-1 TOA · PB2026
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 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | $0 | $11.0M | $10.7M | $8.44M | $12.0M | $11.9M | ||
| Enacted | – | $0 | $13.0M | $11.2M | $8.44M | $12.5M | $12.4M | $12.4M | |
| Request | – | – | $13.0M | $11.2M | $8.44M | $12.5M | $12.4M | $12.4M | $13.8M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2020 book requested $13.0M for FY2020; the PB2022 book reported $11.0M as actual total obligation authority — $2.03M below the request. 11.0 − 13.0 = -2.0 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 — Joint Capability Experimentation
The FY 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) included as one of the Chairman’s responsibilities to address experimentation on future concepts. Rigorous experimentation takes place on concepts to ensure Department investments adequately address future requirements as well as those of today. Accordingly, the Joint Staff requires an experimentation capability to analyze and validate priority joint concept required capabilities. The Joint Staff leads, plans, and executes the Global Integrated Wargame (GIWG) events to examine the Joint Warfighting Concept (JWC) operational logic and identified gaps to support delivery of an evaluated concept to the Secretary of Defense. Concept analysis and validation have a multi-faceted nature to meet the Chairman’s Title 10 responsibility of, “identifying new joint military capabilities based on advances in technology and concepts of operation, and recommending investments and experiments in such capabilities.” Wargames assess baseline missions and campaign level outcomes of the concepts as well as identify tradespace for potential new capabilities. This tradespace of capabilities is further explored with quantitative models and software that identify the most efficient cost and capability tradeoffs to help meet the Title 10 responsibility of “advising the Secretary on new and alternative joint military capabilities, and alternative program recommendations and budget proposals, within projected resource levels.” The Joint Staff approach to tradespace exploration provides a cost conscious and operationally relevant prioritization tradeoff technique early in the portfolio design process. Using this rigorous prioritization approach, the capability development cycle can efficiently focus resources on more detailed experimentation of specific capabilities to inform the requirements process. The analysis from the experimentation program will be used to provide foundational evidence to directly inform the Joint Military Net Assessment (JMNA), the Chairman’s Program Recommendation (CPR), and ultimately the Defense Planning Guidance for Joint Force development.
Mission — Joint Capability Experimentation
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) documents the Chairman’s responsibilities to include experimentation on future concepts. Rigorous experimentation on concepts are a means to ensure Department investments adequately address future requirements, not just near term. Given this, the Joint Staff established an experimentation capability suitable for analysis and validation of priority joint concept required capabilities. This allows the Chairman to identify cost efficient and effective capability tradeoffs. This capability enables the Chairman to fulfill his Title 10 responsibility, “advising the Secretary on new and alternative joint military capabilities, and alternative program recommendations and budget proposals, within projected resource levels.” This capability more fully supports the Chairman’s production of the Joint Military Needs Assessment (JMNA), the Chairman’s Program Recommendation (CPR) and ultimately the Defense Planning Guidance for Joint Force development. This PE funds the Joint Staff J7 Joint Wargaming and Experimentation Division (JWED) three main Advanced Technologies efforts; 1) Globally Integrated Wargames - Advanced Technologies (GIWG –AT), 2) Experimentation Campaign events necessary such as the Joint Experimentation Forum (JEF) for force design and development events supporting Joint Warfighting Concept, Joint Fires, Joint Logistics, and Joint Command & Control, and 3) Joint Experimentation Network - Advanced Technologies (JExNet AT) develops an integrated system of data architecture across federated knowledge platforms and networks to include joint experimentation activities and various learning events that enable knowledge sharing.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (1)
Joint Capability Experimentation
The NDAA documents the Chairman’s responsibilities to address experimentation on future concepts. Vigorous experimentation ensures department investments are adequately addressing future requirements as well as those today. The project delivers analytically rigorous, resource-conscious and operationally-validated portfolio investment strategies for the CJCS to ensure an enduring competitive advantage.
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 | FY24 Actuals | $11.9M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | TJS | FY25 Enacted | $12.4M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | TJS | FY25 Total | $12.4M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | TJS | FY26 Disc. Request | $13.8M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide | TJS | FY26 Total | $13.8M |
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 | $42.1M | $11.9M | $12.4M | $13.8M | $13.8M |
| 001: Joint Capability Experimentation | $42.1M | $11.9M | $12.4M | $13.8M | $13.8M |
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 Capability Experimentation — 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? →