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Advanced Engine Development

Air ForceRDT&EPartial Reconciliation0604004F
What it is
Advanced Engine Development (0604004F) is an Air Force research & development line funded in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force account. Its J-book detail breaks the line into 2 projects.
What changed
No FY25→26 comparison — endpoints unavailable or on different bases.
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$270.0MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25 Total
$100.0MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26 Request
$0P-40 detail · PB2026
FY25→26 Change
No comparison: endpoints unavailable or on different bases

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 lower 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.
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 lower 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.FY24: $270.0MFY25: $100.0MFY26: $0FY24FY25FY26
Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal yearAmount
FY24$270.0MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25$100.0MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26$0P-40 detail · 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
8 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2018–FY2025): 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 rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.
8 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2018–FY2025): 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 rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.FY2018 actuals — PB2020 editionFY2019 actuals — PB2021 editionFY2020 actuals — PB2022 editionFY2021 actuals — PB2023 editionFY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2019 enacted — PB2020 editionFY2020 enacted — PB2021 editionFY2021 enacted — PB2022 editionFY2022 enacted — PB2023 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2020 request — PB2020 editionFY2021 request — PB2021 editionFY2022 request — PB2022 editionFY2023 request — PB2023 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25

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.
SeriesFY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25
Actuals$0$696.1M$647.9M$642.6M$562.7M$212.6M$270.0M
Enacted$720.4M$671.4M$665.3M$583.7M$220.4M$595.4M$100.0M
Request$878.4M$636.5M$123.7M$353.7M$595.4M$562.3M

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

Asked vs spent: the PB2022 book requested $123.7M for FY2022; the PB2024 book reported $562.7M as actual total obligation authority — $439.0M above the request. 562.7123.7 = 439.0 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 Advanced Engine Development

The Advanced Engine Development (AED) Program includes all efforts necessary to develop and evaluate advanced propulsion system components and prototypes in realistic environments. The program also includes all efforts to define and evaluate required modifications to commercial and military off the shelf propulsion systems for use in existing and future aircraft and munitions. These activities enable maturation and risk reduction of advanced propulsion system architectures, designs, modifications, enabling materials and technologies, and manufacturing processes for follow-on Engineering, Manufacturing and Development and integration efforts. Prototyping and assessments of the prototypes at sea-level, simulated altitudes, and durability assessments across multiple power settings provides data to validate system performance, calibrate engineering models, and ensure appropriate manufacturing and technology readiness for future propulsion system development and platform integration as well as potential insertion into already fielded propulsion systems. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605833F, or 0605898F. In FY 2024 $4.971 million was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY 2025 $0.0 million is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element. This effort is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P), because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.

Mission Advanced Engine Technologies

Advanced Engine Technology activities expand industrial base knowledge and skills enabling future advanced propulsion system architectures and designs; propulsion systems include the inlet, engine and nozzle. Activities include: - Addressing manufacturing producibility, affordability, quality, risks and issues throughout the development process to improve product quality; enhance manufacturing processes; and strengthen the supply chain. - Maturing alloy, coatings, and composites to meet next generation component requirements through composite trials and component testing. - Developing Model Based Inspections techniques and increasing digital collaboration between Government and Industry to expand capability and capacity for future application. - Expanding use of Model Based Systems Engineering and incorporating learnings into advanced combat engine model development.

Mission Advanced Engine Dev

Advanced Engine Development (AED) activities include all efforts necessary to develop and evaluate all thrust classes of advanced propulsion system architectures, designs, enabling advanced materials, component technologies, and manufacturing processes in realistic environments. AED also includes all efforts to define and evaluate modifications to commercial and military off the shelf propulsion systems for use in existing and future, aircraft and munitions. Prototyping and assessments of the prototypes at sea-level, simulated altitudes, and durability assessments across multiple power settings provide data to validate performance, calibrate engineering models, and ensure appropriate manufacturing and technology readiness for future propulsion system development and platform integration as well as potential insertion into already fielded propulsion systems. This project advances propulsion technologies from Advanced Technology Development (ATD) into Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) when appropriate; some propulsion technologies may transfer directly from ATD into EMD.

Justification

No accomplishments or planned-program narratives in this line's J-book detail — some exhibits carry figures without per-project prose.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY24 Actuals$270.0M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY25 Enacted$100.0M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY25 Total$100.0M

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.

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$0$270.0M$100.0M$0$0
640020: Advanced Engine Technologies$0$270.0M$0$0$0
643608: Advanced Engine Dev$0$0$100.0M$0$0

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 Advanced Engine Development — 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? →