Acquisition Visibility - Software Pilot Program

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What it is

Acquisition Visibility - Software Pilot Program (0608648D8Z) 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

-$358.0K FY25→26 R-1 TOA · PB2026

Who gets it

No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals

$20.6MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25 Total

$17.9MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY26 Request

$17.5MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25→26 Change

-$358.0KR-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.

Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal year	Amount
FY24	$20.6M
FY25	$17.9M
FY26	$17.5M

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

8 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2019–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.

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.
Series	FY19	FY20	FY21	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26
Actuals	$0	$0	$16.2M	$17.5M	$15.1M	$20.6M
Enacted	–	$0	$16.8M	$18.2M	$15.8M	$21.4M	$17.9M
Request	–	–	$16.8M	$18.3M	$17.1M	$21.4M	$17.9M	$17.5M

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

Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $17.1M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reported $15.1M as actual total obligation authority — $2.07M below the request. 15.055 − 17.123 = -2.068 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 — Acquisition Visibility - Software Pilot Program

The FY 2026 request for Acquisition Visibility includes $17.549 thousands of discretionary and $0 thousands of mandatory (reconciliation) for a total of $17.549 thousands. Acquisition Visibility supports two distinct yet interdependent projects enabling a resilient ecosystem supporting acquisition programs across the Department of Defense (DoD): 1) Data Visibility identifies, matures, and publishes acquisition data standards (definitions and metadata) for enterprise-wide transparency and alignment and implements the Acquisition Data Strategy. Data Visibility helps to make acquisition data visible, accessible, understandable, linked, trustworthy, and interoperable. 2) The Defense Acquisition Visibility Environment (DAVE) provides data access via software applications to enable data analytics, lead the Department’s statutory reporting required by 10 USC §4372 and §4373, share authoritative data with integrated systems, including Advana , and develop, deploy, and maintain acquisition data collection for major programs' statutory reporting and performance measurement of Acquisition Pathways.

Mission — DAVE and Data Visibility

Data Visibility delivers data standards via the Acquisition Visibility Data Framework (AVDF). Data Visibility supports the acquisition data strategy requirements of Section 836 of the NDAA for FY 2021 and data collection and sharing for additional Acquisition Pathways, Defense Business Systems, and Software Acquisition. AV enables the integration and interoperability of defense acquisition, building an enduring strategic mission advantage by aligning the Department's processes to design, develop, and deliver the acquisition data to enable the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)) to meet the Digital Acquisition & Sustainment and Transparency objectives of the Department and the requirements of Congress. Comprehensive digital acquisition, data science and analytics, and increased data transparency and access will improve acquisition decisions, enable sophisticated analysis, and inform innovative ways of doing business so that the OUSD(A&S), OSD staff, and the Services and Components can quickly inform policy and budget decisions with accurate, authoritative data.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (2)

Data Visibility

The Data Visibility project aligns Acquisition domain data and analytic operations relative to OUSD(A&S) priorities and Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) strategy and guidance, to identify, mature, and publish Acquisition data standards (definitions; metadata) for enterprise-wide transparency and alignment. Data Visibility ensures data collection and analysis capabilities support leadership's priorities; maintains A&S alignment with data management policies, guidance, and standards; ensures the transparent alignment of data to the major defense acquisition use cases; improves data quality through OSD and Services data collection system compliance with the data standards; maintains a single source of truth on data definition, ownership, and appropriate use; and establishes a foundation for insight, decision-making, and reporting on acquisition programs and portfolios.

Defense Acquisition Visibility Environment (DAVE)

The Defense Acquisition Visibility Environment (DAVE) delivers access to the Department’s authoritative acquisition data through Non-secure Internet Protocol (NIPR) and Secure Internet Protocol (SIPR) instances. Multiple acquisition data collection and analysis platforms rely on DAVE for authoritative acquisition data, including but not limited to: the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Comptroller Advanced Analytics (ADVANA), OSD Cost Analysis and Program Evaluation (CAPE) Cost Assessment Data Enterprise, Air Force and Army Project Management Reporting Tools, Navy Research, Development and Acquisition Information System, and the Earned Value Management Central Repository. DAVE implements Section 805 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 which reinstated the requirement to report Selected Acquisition Reports (SAR) (Title 10 of the US Code Section 2423), as well as the FY21 and FY22 NDAAs which provided Congressional direction to modernize the SAR process. DAVE is an authoritative source for acquisition data inside the Department of Defense (DoD) and for Congress, the Government Accountability Office (GAO), and the Inspectors General (IG) for multiple Adaptive Acquisition Framework (AAF) Acquisition Pathways including all Acquisition Category (ACAT) I – IV programs, Middle Tier of Acquisition programs, as well as National Command, Control, and Communications covered programs.

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, Defense-Wide	OSD	FY24 Actuals	$20.6M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	OSD	FY25 Enacted	$17.9M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	OSD	FY25 Total	$17.9M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	OSD	FY26 Disc. Request	$17.5M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide	OSD	FY26 Total	$17.5M

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	$48.8M	$20.6M	$17.9M	$17.5M	$17.5M
059: DAVE and Data Visibility	$48.8M	$20.6M	$17.9M	$17.5M	$17.5M

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 Visibility - Software Pilot 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? →