Fiscal Receipts

Defense Exportability Program

OSDRDT&EPartial Reconciliation0605022D8Z
What it is
Defense Exportability Program (0605022D8Z) 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
-$9.00M FY25→26 R-1 TOA · PB2026
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$14.2MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25 Total
$15.8MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26 Request
$6.78MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25→26 Change
-$9.00MR-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: $14.2MFY25: $15.8MFY26: $6.78MFY24FY25FY26
Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal yearAmount
FY24$14.2M
FY25$15.8M
FY26$6.78M

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$3.15M$3.17M$2.85M$2.09M$1.46M$11.9M$12.6M$55.3M$30.1M$14.2M
Enacted$3.27M$2.92M$3.16M$1.49M$12.1M$12.9M$5.42M$30.1M$19.0M$15.8M
Request$2.92M$3.16M$1.49M$17.6M$12.9M$5.45M$10.1M$19.0M$15.8M$6.78M

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

Asked vs spent: the PB2022 book requested $5.45M for FY2022; the PB2024 book reported $55.3M as actual total obligation authority — $49.9M above the request. 55.3 − 5.4 = 49.9 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 — Defense Exportability Features (DEF) Program

The Defense Exportability Features (DEF) Program funds activities to support identification of major defense acquisition programs for possible export and the planning for design and incorporation of exportability features during the research and development phases of these programs. Features include, but are not limited to, technology and engineering design activities such as capability differentials, anti-tamper, system assurance, and software assurance. Activities include the development of program protection strategies for the program; the design and incorporation of exportability features into the system; implementation of exportability requirements into contracts; and other research, development, test, and evaluation activities. Defense exportability features play a critically important role in Department of Defense (DoD) efforts to build partnership capacity. Funding supports building joint and coalition environments by enabling the export of DoD systems to a wide range of partner nations, resulting in improved security and interoperability. In addition to operational benefits, by providing these resources up front, the United States and partner nations will save both significant resources and increased time delays by incorporating exportability features earlier in the acquisition cycle vice retrofitting an operational program of record system. Retrofitting requires substantial delay while program protection measures are incorporated prior to export. Experience has shown that failure to identify the full range of Critical Program Information (CPI) early in a DoD program’s design phase can drive major affordability and schedule programs. Early development of export variants, including systems design approaches to integrate exportable anti-tamper protection and differential capability requirements to lower production costs, make it possible to improve quality and timely deliveries to Allies and partners and may enhance U.S. industry share of the global marketplace.

Mission — Defense Exportability Features (DEF) Program

The DEF Program funds activities to support identification of major defense acquisition programs for possible export and the planning for design and incorporation of exportability features during the research and development phases of these programs. Features include, but are not limited to, technology and engineering design activities such as capability differentials, anti-tamper, system assurance, and software assurance. Activities include the development of program protection strategies for the program; the design and incorporation of exportability features into the system; implementation of exportability requirements into contracts; and other research, development, test, and evaluation activities. Defense exportability features play a critically important role in DoD efforts to build partnership capacity. Funds support building joint and coalition environments by enabling the export of DoD systems to a wide range of partner nations, resulting in improved security and interoperability. In addition to the operational benefits, by providing these resources up front, the United States and partner nations will save significant resources by more efficiently designing and producing exportable U.S. systems. Experience has shown that failure to identify the full range of CPI early in a DoD program's design phase can drive major affordability and schedule problems later when programs have to "retrofit" program protection measures prior to export. Early development of export variants, including systems design approaches to integrate exportable anti-tamper protection and differential capability requirements to lower production costs, makes it possible to improve quality and timely deliveries to allies and friends and may enhance U.S. industry share of the global marketplace.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (1)

DEF Program

The DEF Program enables DoD programs to develop and incorporate technology protection features in designated systems during the research and development phase of such systems to prepare them for export. By facilitating the export of U.S. defense systems, the DoD enhances the U.S. defense industrial base, strengthens the military capabilities of U.S. allies around the world, and increases coalition interoperability. Program activities that were funded in FY 2024 included: • Tactical High Power Microwave Operational Responder (THOR) (Air Force): Developed a detailed design of THOR to the Mjölnir-E system incorporating the exportability features identified during Phase 1A. The specific exportability features were incorporated into the detailed design during the completion of the Phase 1A Study. • Surface Antisubmarine Warfare Synthetic Trainer (SAST) (Navy): SAST, Performed Feasibility Design Analysis defining software solutions, and provided an engineering development plan for completing technology control requirements for USW Embedded Training in 1) Direct Connect to Navy Continuous Training Environment and 2) Enhanced Entity Modeling.

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$14.2M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideOSDFY25 Enacted$15.8M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideOSDFY25 Total$15.8M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideOSDFY26 Disc. Request$6.78M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideOSDFY26 Total$6.78M

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$127.7M$14.2M$15.8M$6.78M$6.78M
013: Defense Exportability Features (DEF) Program$127.7M$14.2M$15.8M$6.78M$6.78M

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 Defense Exportability Program — 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