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Acquisition Integration and Interoperability (AI2)

OSDRDT&EPartial Reconciliation0605649D8Z
What it is
Acquisition Integration and Interoperability (AI2) (0605649D8Z) 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
-$2.06M FY25→26 R-1 TOA · PB2026
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$0P-40 detail · PB2026
FY25 Total
$15.6MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26 Request
$13.6MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25→26 Change
-$2.06MR-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 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 so the direction of travel is readable at a glance: 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: $0FY25: $15.6MFY26: $13.6MFY24FY25FY26
Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal yearAmount
FY24$0P-40 detail · PB2026
FY25$15.6MR-1 TOA · PB2026
FY26$13.6MR-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
2 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2025–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 is too short to show a direction. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.
2 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2025–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 is too short to show a direction. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.FY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY25FY26

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.
SeriesFY25FY26
Enacted$15.6M
Request$12.8M$13.6M

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

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 Acquisition Integration and Interoperability (AI2)

The FY 2026 request for AI2 includes $13.556 million for AI2. The AI2 was established to create an enduring acquisition infrastructure for delivering integrated joint, system-of-systems capabilities, and establish the necessary policies, forums, and processes to (1) Enable the delivery of integrated defense capabilities, leveraging Military Department and service-specific system acquisition; (2) Drive adoption of threat-based mission thread analysis to inform acquisition, resourcing, and requirements decisions; and (3) Support acquisition portfolio reviews to drive resourcing and enterprise decisions. Program funding institutionalizes the lessons learned from the Department’s Competitive Advantage Pathfinders (CAP) and Integrated Acquisition Portfolio Reviews (IAPR) and aligns service-specific system acquisition programs, prototypes, and Science and Technology (S&T) projects to deliver joint integrated capabilities. The program executes studies, analyses, and pathfinding efforts to (1) Govern the processes across the Defense Acquisition System to integrate and align portfolios and programs across the lifecycle from Services, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Components, and Combatant Commands (COCOMs); (2) Create an enduring infrastructure, tools, and processes for Service and OSD teams to better integrate system-of-systems capabilities; and (3) Remove regulatory and institutional barriers towards leveraging service-unique acquisitions for joint requirements.

Mission Acquisition Integration and Interoperability

AI2 was established to create an enduring acquisition infrastructure for delivering integrated joint, system-of-systems capabilities, and establish the necessary policies, forums, and processes to (1) Enable the delivery of integrated defense capabilities, leveraging Military Department and service-specific system acquisition; (2) Drive adoption of threat-based mission thread analysis to inform acquisition, resourcing, and requirements decisions; and (3) Support acquisition portfolio reviews to drive resourcing and enterprise decisions. Program funding institutionalizes the lessons learned from the Department’s Competitive Advantage Pathfinders (CAP) and Integrated Acquisition Portfolio Reviews (IAPR) and aligns service-specific system acquisition programs, prototypes, and Science and Technology (S&T) projects to deliver joint integrated capabilities. The program executes studies, analyses, and pathfinding efforts to (1) Govern the processes across the Defense Acquisition System to integrate and align portfolios and programs across the lifecycle from Services, OSD Components, and COCOMs; (2) Create an enduring infrastructure, tools, and processes for Service and OSD teams to better integrate system-of-systems capabilities; and (3) Remove regulatory and institutional barriers towards leveraging service-unique acquisitions for joint requirements.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (1)

Acquisition Integration and Interoperability

Program funding institutionalizes the lessons learned from the Department’s Competitive Advantage Pathfinders (CAP) and Integrated Acquisition Portfolio Reviews (IAPR) and aligns service-specific system acquisition programs, prototypes, and Science and Technology (S&T) projects to deliver joint integrated capabilities. The program executes studies, analyses, and pathfinding efforts to (1) Govern the processes across the Defense Acquisition System to integrate and align portfolios and programs across the lifecycle from Services, OSD Components, and Combatant Commands (COCOMs); (2) Create an enduring infrastructure, tools, and processes for Service and OSD teams to better integrate system-of-systems capabilities; and (3) Remove regulatory and institutional barriers towards leveraging service-unique acquisitions for joint requirements.

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-WideOSDFY25 Enacted$15.6M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideOSDFY25 Total$15.6M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideOSDFY26 Disc. Request$13.6M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-WideOSDFY26 Total$13.6M

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$0$15.6M$13.6M$13.6M
952: Acquisition Integration and Interoperability$0$0$15.6M$13.6M$13.6M

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 Acquisition Integration and Interoperability (AI2) — 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? →