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Mission Support

DARPARDT&EReconciledPE0605001E
What it is
Mission Support (0605001E) is a DARPA 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
+$2.67M FY25→26 R-1 TOA · PB2026
Who gets it
No single contractor is published as this line's leader. 14 linked award records are listed below. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. Why the crosswalk is partial.

Budget figures

FY24 Actuals
$108.2MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25 Total
$113.0MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26 Request
$115.7MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25→26 Change
+$2.67MR-1 TOA · PB2026
Data coverage

FY2026 award data is a partial year — USAspending reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →

Budget trajectory

The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order: this line ends higher 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: this line ends higher 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: $108.2MFY25: $113.0MFY26: $115.7MFY24FY25FY26
Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal yearAmount
FY24$108.2M
FY25$113.0M
FY26$115.7M

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$69.2M$64.3M$67.8M$69.0M$75.2M$75.6M$96.6M$108.2M
Enacted$0$69.2M$63.8M$65.6M$68.5M$74.3M$73.1M$86.9M$99.1M$113.0M
Request$69.2M$63.8M$65.6M$68.5M$74.3M$73.1M$86.9M$99.1M$113.0M$115.7M

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

Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $86.9M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reported $96.6M as actual total obligation authority — $9.77M above the request. 96.64 − 86.87 = 9.77 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.

Program lineage

Predecessors (funding flowed in)

This program
0605001E — Mission Support

Family Funding Line

Funding chain: 0605898E0605001E — Management HQ - R&D

See this family in the lineage map →

Description

Mission — MISSION SUPPORT

The Mission Support Program Element provides funding for the costs of mission support activities for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The funds provide personnel compensation for mission support civilians as well as costs for building rent, physical security, travel, supplies and equipment, communications, printing and reproduction.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (4)

Mission Support Civilian Personnel Salaries

Mission Support Civilian Personnel Salaries

Facilities and Infrastructure Costs

Facilities and Infrastructure Costs

Mission Support Travel

Mission Support Travel

Accounting and Audit

Accounting and Audit

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-WideDARPAFY24 Actuals$108.2M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideDARPAFY25 Enacted$113.0M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideDARPAFY25 Total$113.0M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideDARPAFY26 Disc. Request$115.7M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideDARPAFY26 Total$115.7M

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$108.2M$113.0M$115.7M$115.7M
MST-01: MISSION SUPPORT$0$108.2M$113.0M$115.7M$115.7M

Follow the dollar

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 312 of 1,938 programs). why coverage is partial? →

Related awards

Award linkage is shown for 32 of 200 profiled companies — high- and medium-confidence USAspending matches, each row labeled; medium is the weaker evidence. why partial award coverage? →

Rows marked medium rest on evidence weaker than a program-level match, and of more than one kind. An account-based row, where the award drew from the same appropriation account as this program, is an association, not evidence that this program paid for the contract. Where the evidence is instead an FPDS acquisition-program tag or a subaward description, the program is established but which of its budget lines paid is not. An announcement link a recorded review did not leave standing is medium too. Only high rows rest on the contract naming this program with a recorded review upholding it and no recorded rejection or refutation applying.

RecipientPIIDConfidence
ADELPHI TECHNOLOGY INCHR001117C0020medium
APPLIED PHYSICAL SCIENCES CORPHR001118C0008medium
BAE SYSTEMS INFORMATION & ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS INTEGRATION INCHR001115C0103medium
GOODRICH CORPORATIONHR001114C0054medium
L3 TECHNOLOGIES, INC.HR001118C0105medium
LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATIONHR001117C0086medium
RAYTHEON COMPANYHR001115C0102medium
RAYTHEON COMPANYHR001119C0092medium
ROCKWELL COLLINS, INC.HR001117C0116medium
RTX BBN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.HR001115C0113medium
SOTERA DEFENSE SOLUTIONS, INC.HR001118C0058medium
SPATIAL INTEGRATED SYSTEMS INCHR001119C0118medium
SRI INTERNATIONALHR001119C0034medium
TWO SIX LABS, LLCHR001118C0055medium

Contractor concentration

No concentration index is published for this line. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. An index below that floor is a fact about the sample, not about the market. Whatever further links this line carries are medium-confidence, and what each medium evidence path does and does not establish is set out in the methodology. Both bases are in the downloadable warehouse.

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 Mission Support. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.

Program dossier

No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,938 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →

Primary sources

Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.

Budget totals · TOA sources

Detailed budget justification

The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.