Fiscal Receipts

Support for Strategic Analysis

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What it is
Support for Strategic Analysis (0604682D8Z) is an OSD 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
+$1.22M FY25→26 R-1 TOA · PB2026
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$3.09MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25 Total
$1.56MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26 Request
$2.78MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25→26 Change
+$1.22MR-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 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: $3.09MFY25: $1.56MFY26: $2.78MFY24FY25FY26
Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal yearAmount
FY24$3.09M
FY25$1.56M
FY26$2.78M

All series figures: R-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
12 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2015–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 rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.
12 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2015–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 rises across the span. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.FY2015 actuals — PB2017 editionFY2016 actuals — PB2018 editionFY2017 actuals — PB2019 editionFY2018 actuals — PB2020 editionFY2019 actuals — PB2021 editionFY2020 actuals — PB2022 editionFY2021 actuals — PB2023 editionFY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2016 enacted — PB2017 editionFY2017 enacted — PB2018 editionFY2018 enacted — PB2019 editionFY2019 enacted — PB2020 editionFY2020 enacted — PB2021 editionFY2021 enacted — PB2022 editionFY2022 enacted — PB2023 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2017 request — PB2017 editionFY2018 request — PB2018 editionFY2019 request — PB2019 editionFY2020 request — PB2020 editionFY2021 request — PB2021 editionFY2022 request — PB2022 editionFY2023 request — PB2023 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY15FY18FY20FY22FY24FY26

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.
SeriesFY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$0$0$3.85M$3.69M$3.62M$3.61M$3.34M$3.28M$2.71M$3.09M
Enacted$0$4.00M$3.83M$3.76M$3.75M$3.47M$3.41M$3.23M$3.21M$1.56M
Request$4.00M$3.83M$3.77M$3.75M$3.47M$3.52M$3.23M$3.21M$3.56M$2.78M

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

Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $3.23M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reported $2.71M as actual total obligation authority — $518.0K below the request. 2.7 − 3.2 = -0.5 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 — Wargaming & Support for Strategic Analysis (SSA)

This program supports the Department's initiatives to Deter Aggression, Defend the Homeland, and Build Sustainable and Long-Term Advantage. This program supports the Office of the Director, Cost Assessment & Program Evaluation (CAPE) by funding activities that help CAPE to implement warfighting analysis in support of the interim National Defense Strategy (NDS). The CAPE accomplishes this by leading studies to support campaign analysis and analytical research across a spectrum of national security issues and concerns. These RDT&E resources support critical studies and analyses to assist senior DoD leaders in optimally balancing the lethality, partnership, and reform levels of effort to carry out the NDS. The research agenda focuses on near to long-term problems identified by the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and addresses difficult and complex questions linked to program alternatives for current and future capabilities and forces in order to enhance the senior leadership's deliberations and decision-making. This program provides the scientific and technical engineering services needed for research studies in the development of models and simulations and the evaluation of current analytical tools and scientific methods used to evaluate and assess scenarios and concepts of operations for a wide range of warfighting environments and scenarios. Deliverables from this program will include reports, briefings, and analyses designed to illuminate findings and assessments to inform Operation Plan development and DoD's approach to concept development, joint campaign analysis, evaluation, and force development.

Mission — Wargaming & Support for Strategic Analysis

This program supports the Office of the Director, Cost Assessment & Program Evaluation (CAPE). It funds activities that help CAPE to implement the vision of the Deputy Secretary of Defense to support new approaches to campaign analysis. CAPE will accomplish this by leading studies and developing analytic tools to think about future capabilities and posture. This program provides for analytical research across a spectrum of issues and concerns. The research agenda is focused on near to long-term problems identified by the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and addresses difficult and complex questions linked to program alternatives for current and future capabilities and forces in order to enhance the senior leadership's deliberations and decision-making. This program provides the scientific and technical engineering services needed for research studies in the development of models and simulations and the evaluation of current analytical tools and scientific methods used to evaluate and assess future scenarios and concepts of operations for a wide range of warfighting environments and scenarios. Deliverables from this program will include reports, briefings, and analyses designed to illuminate findings and assessments. Outcomes include the compilation and campaign analyses data to support the DoD capabilities to the challenges of a near-peer warfight and strategic and programmatic options for post INF treaty weapons options.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (1)

Wargaming & Support for Strategic Analysis

This program provides for analytical research across a spectrum of issues and concerns. The research agenda is focused on near to long-term problems identified by the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and addresses difficult and complex questions linked to program alternatives for current and future capabilities and forces in order to enhance the senior leadership's deliberations and decision-making.

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, Defense-WideOSDFY24 Actuals$3.09M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideOSDFY25 Enacted$1.56M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideOSDFY25 Total$1.56M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideOSDFY26 Disc. Request$2.78M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideOSDFY26 Total$2.78M

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$3.09M$3.09M$1.56M$2.78M$2.78M
104: Wargaming & Support for Strategic Analysis$3.09M$3.09M$1.56M$2.78M$2.78M

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 Support for Strategic Analysis — 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? →

Primary Sources