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Operational Energy and Installation Resilience
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? →
- FY24
- $23.3M
- FY25
- $25.4M
- FY26
- $49.5M
● actuals (line) · ○ enacted · ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.
| Series | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | $100.8M | $24.6M | $23.3M | ||
| Enacted | – | $104.0M | $25.5M | $46.3M | $25.4M | |
| Request | – | – | $0 | $46.3M | $63.2M | $49.5M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $0 for FY2023; the PB2025 book reports $24.6M actually spent — $24.6M above the request.
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 — Operational Energy and Installation Resilience
The Operational Energy and Installation Resilience program develops, matures, prototypes, demonstrates, and assesses technologies, software, and processes for decreasing operational energy risk and increasing installation resilience. Energy is a cross-cutting pervasive need across every weapon system, platform, installation, and austere operating location. The objective of this program is to prioritize, validate performance in a relevant environment, and facilitate implementation of the validated solutions that increase weapon system and platform capabilities (range, endurance, number of sorties refueled, etc.), mitigate supply chain risk, and enhance resilience of supporting infrastructure for increased readiness and lethality. 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 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY 2024 $0.688 million was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY 2025 $0.790 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 — Operational Energy and Installation Resilience
The Operational Energy and Installation Resilience program develops, matures, prototypes, demonstrates, and assesses technologies, software, and processes for decreasing operational energy risk and increasing installation resilience. The Air Force is the Department of Defense largest consumer of operational energy and requires resilient installations as power projection platforms to execute its missions. Technology transition, agile software development, and process integration efforts with a focus in these areas enable the Air Force to optimize operational energy use for maximum combat capability and mitigate multi-domain energy threats to installations. The objective of this program is to prioritize, validate performance in a relevant environment, and facilitate implementation of the validated solutions. 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 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY 2024 $0.688 million was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY 2025 $0.790 million is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element.
Mission — Operational Energy
The Operational Energy project develops, matures, prototypes, and demonstrates technologies, software, and processes focused on optimizing energy usage to maximize combat capability. Activities include mission planning and scheduling optimization, mobility fleet optimization, aircraft drag reduction technologies, and energy supply chain and logistics efforts. As DOD's largest consumer of operational energy, these energy-focused efforts facilitate implementation of validated solutions that increase weapon system and platform capabilities (range, endurance, number of sorties refueled, etc.) and mitigate supply chain risk for DoD's largest consumer of operational energy, the Department of the Air Force. 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 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY 2024 $0.688 million was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY 2025 $0.790 million is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element.
Mission — Installation Resiliency
Installation Resiliency projects develop, mature, prototype, and demonstrate technologies, software, and processes focused on increasing installation energy resilience to ensure energy availability and reliability sufficient to provide for mission assurance and readiness. Supporting infrastructure is a critical and integral component of our weapon systems, and joint operations rely on connectivity across the Department of the Air Force enterprise. The Department of the Air Force requires resilient infrastructure and installations to execute its missions. Activity areas include Advanced Nuclear, Mission Resilience Digital Transformation, Resilient Energy technology, Flightline Modernization, and Energy for the Tactical Edge. 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 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY 2024 $0.688 million was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY 2025 $0.790 million is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (4)
Operational Energy
Operational energy efforts seek to maximize combat capability by reducing overall DAF mission energy demand. Efforts in this program can include prototyping, demonstration, and transition of technologies, software, and processes that maximize combat capability by optimizing the following areas: platform energy use, mission planning and execution, propulsion sustainment, and energy logistics. Energy education, energy-informed wargaming, digital engineering, and modeling and simulation efforts typically support these areas. Specific examples of prototype and demonstration projects that optimize energy use and decrease energy intensity include legacy aircraft drag reduction technologies, alternate-fuel propulsion systems, ultra-efficient airframe designs, mission scheduling software, air-asset allocation tools, cargo load planning tools, and turbine engine sustainment enhancements for increased fuel efficiency. Operational Energy projects in these technology and process areas are viewed through an "energy lens,” specifically geared toward cost-effectively optimizing energy use to maximize combat capability. Ideally, as the Air Force progresses toward an energy-aware culture, all acquisition efforts will incorporate this tenet from the beginning of, and throughout, the acquisition life cycle. This program aims to advance such a culture through successful project execution.
Installation Resilience
The Installation Resilience program develops, matures, prototypes, demonstrates, and assesses technologies, software, and processes focused on increasing installation resilience. The Air Force requires resilient installations as power projection platforms to execute its missions. Technology transition, agile software development, and process integration efforts with a focus on resilience will enable the Air Force to mitigate multi-domain energy threats to installations. The objective of this program is to prioritize, validate, and facilitate implementation of validated solutions.
Operational Energy
Operational energy efforts seek to maximize combat capability by reducing overall DAF mission energy demand. Efforts in this program include, but not limited to prototyping, demonstration, transition of technologies, software, and processes which optimize platform energy use, mission planning and execution, propulsion sustainment, and energy logistics. Energy education, energy-informed wargaming, digital engineering, and modeling and simulation efforts also contribute to optimization in these areas as well. Specific examples of prototype and demonstration projects that optimize energy use and decrease energy intensity include route planning, cargo optimization, aircraft drag reduction technologies, energy supply chain and logistics optimization, and mobility fleet optimization efforts. While some of the operational energy efforts may appear similar to efforts found in other program elements, the differentiator is the "energy lens” focus on cost-effectively optimizing energy use to maximize combat capability. All acquisition efforts will incorporate this tenet from the beginning of, and throughout, the acquisition life cycle.
Installation Resilience
Improve installation resilience through prototyping, integration, and demonstration of energy technologies. The technologies will be assessed in an operational environment.
Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)
Exhibit R-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY24 Actuals | $23.3M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY25 Enacted | $25.4M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY25 Total | $25.4M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY26 Disc. Request | $49.5M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY26 Total | $49.5M |
Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)
| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 644861: Operational Energy | $0 | $0 | $0 | $31.4M | $31.4M |
| 644862: Installation Resiliency | $0 | $0 | $25.4M | $18.1M | $18.1M |
| Program Element | $0 | $23.3M | $25.4M | $49.5M | $49.5M |
| 644860: Operational Energy and Installation Resilience | $0 | $23.3M | $0 | $0 | $0 |
No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1741 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.
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →