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Next Generation Air-refueling System
Budget figures
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
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $9.32M |
| FY25 | $7.01M |
| FY26 | $13.0M |
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
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.
| Series | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | – | $9.32M | ||
| Enacted | – | $0 | $7.93M | $7.01M | |
| Request | – | – | $7.93M | $7.01M | $13.0M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $7.93M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $9.32M as actual total obligation authority — $1.40M above the request. 9.3 − 7.9 = 1.4 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 — Next Generation Air-refueling System (NGAS)
Developing future tanker capability and recapitalizing the Air Force's aging tanker fleet is a top priority for the Department of the Air Force. In FY 2024, the Department of the Air Force amended its previous Tanker recapitalization approaches (KC-X, KC-Y, KC-Z) in favor of more agile methods, prioritizing and accelerating the right capabilities to deliver fuel to the fight. This funding will develop more advanced capabilities to allow tankers to operate in a more contested environment. The FY 2024 Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) provided conclusions that tankers will need to be more survivable to operate in a contested environment. Means to achieve this goal include but are not limited to examining the effectiveness and affordability of more resilient, connected, and survivable tanker systems. Future tanker fleet survivability capabilities are a top priority for the Department of the Air Force to counter pacing threats and enable B-21, CCAs, F-47, survivable tankers, and Space assets in contested environments. In FY 2026, this effort will continue AoA excursions, planning for transition of new technologies for resilient connectivity and survivability (mission systems), and further market research. The Future Tankers System Program Office will pursue cost versus capability analysis, updated tanker models and high-fidelity modeling and simulation to further exercise joint warfighting concepts and plans. This work will allow for concept refinement and support to requirements development to include potential refined attributes. This requirement supports performance of a full financial audit as required by title 10 U.S.C Chapter 9A, Sec 240-D. 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 $0.676 million was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY 2025 $1.18 million is forecast 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.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (2)
Studies and Analysis
Studies and Analysis provide excursions and concept refinement derived from AoA analysis. Activities will help determine the efficacy of capabilities through trade analysis, development, engineering, prototyping, and testing to include but not be limited to: future tanker model development planning; implementation and access; Modeling and Simulation; and cost vs. capability analysis market research.
NGAS Direct Mission Support
Future Tanker Program Office support will continue developmental planning activities, market research, mission support, as well as acquisition planning and documentation activities.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit R-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY24 Actuals | $9.32M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY25 Enacted | $7.01M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY25 Total | $7.01M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY26 Disc. Request | $13.0M |
| Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force | F | FY26 Total | $13.0M |
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.
| Project | All Prior Years | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $0 | $9.32M | $7.01M | $13.0M | $13.0M |
| 640010: Next Generation Air-refueling System (NGAS) | $0 | $9.32M | $7.01M | $13.0M | $13.0M |
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? →
Awards
No awards are linked to this program element at high or medium 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 Next Generation Air-refueling System. 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
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J561
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J566
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · K581
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
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.
FY2026 Air Force Research and Development Test and Evaluation, Vol. I · www.saffm.hq.af.mil
PDF page 13