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Fiscal Receipts

Acquisition and Management Support

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What it is
Acquisition and Management Support — a research & development program run by Air Force.
What changed
-$2.55M FY25→26
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$24.4M
FY25 Total
$25.2M
FY26 Request
$22.7M
FY25→26 Change
-$2.55M

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
FY24: $24.4MFY25: $25.2MFY26: $22.7MFY24FY25FY26
FY24
$24.4M
FY25
$25.2M
FY26
$22.7M
Decade view — each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
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 editionFY15FY26

● actuals (line)  ·  ○ enacted  ·  ◇ request — gaps are editions the program is absent from, never interpolated.

SeriesFY15FY16FY17FY18FY19FY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$16.1M$16.4M$14.2M$14.7M$12.1M$5.70M$12.9M$36.3M$48.3M$24.4M
Enacted$15.4M$14.6M$15.0M$12.4M$5.91M$13.4M$37.2M$49.2M$20.5M$25.2M
Request$14.6M$15.0M$12.4M$5.91M$13.4M$37.2M$24.3M$20.5M$25.2M$22.7M

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

Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $24.3M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reports $48.3M actually spent — $24.0M above the request.

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 and Management Support

The program funds efforts to meet the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA), as well as Congressional, SECDEF, and SECAF mandates to provide program management execution tools, systems integration and architectural analysis, information technology infrastructure development, and technical workforce management. Funding also provides the framework for Air Force business and acquisition transformation in developing capabilities-based architectures, re-engineering and enabling technologies, integrating robust systems engineering into early acquisition processes, acquisition process improvement analysis, and developing and managing a technical workforce with the expertise to uniformly implement OSD and Air Force engineering guidance and policies. These efforts provide stability in Air Force Acquisition by integrating major processes to reverse trends toward unpredictable program cost, schedule, and performance to facilitate quick response to urgent operational needs from across the entire spectrum of potential conflicts. These integrated capabilities will provide OSD and AF acquisition leadership insights needed to effectively manage a complex portfolio of acquisition programs through more timely and reliable access to authoritative acquisition data. The Air Force is refocusing a number of science and technology concept explorations in artificial intelligence (AI) across command, control, communications, sensor, and intelligence areas within PE 0602788F, Dominant Information Sciences and Methods, and PE 0602204F, Aerospace Sensors, to improve and accelerate the delivery of artificial intelligence warfighting capabilities under the direction of both the Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force and the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition, Technology & Logistics) and exercised through the Air Force Capability Development Council. The Air Force will now perform these science and technology concept explorations under this Program Element as the Air Force continues to respond to and reflect 1) the vision outlined for Artificial Intelligence in the 2018 National Defense Strategy, 2) expectations outlined by the February 2019 White House Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence and the United States Department of Defense (DoD) Artificial Intelligence Strategy, 3) initiatives by other Armed Services to create AI-centric organizations, 4) Senior Air Force leadership goals to develop Artificial Intelligence applications for the United States Air Force in the near term, and 5) senior Department of Defense leadership objectives to enrich and strengthen the broader Air Force and Department Artificial Intelligence ecosystem to impact national security. Additionally, this program supports Great Power Competition through an enterprise decision-making forum with proper authorities and oversight to ensure product support decisions are informed from an AF enterprise perspective to efficiently leverage resources and optimize support to the warfighter at an enterprise level. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY24 0M was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY25 0M is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element. This program is in Budget Activity 6, RDT&E Management Support because this budget activity includes research, development, test and evaluation efforts and funds to sustain and/or modernize the installations or operations required for general research, development, test and evaluation.

Mission ACQ and Command Support Integration

The program funds efforts to meet the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA), as well as Congressional, SECDEF, and SECAF mandates to provide program management execution tools, systems integration and architectural analysis, information technology infrastructure development, and technical workforce management. Funding also provides the framework for Air Force business and acquisition transformation in developing capabilities-based architectures, re-engineering and enabling technologies, integrating robust systems engineering into early acquisition processes, acquisition process improvement analysis, and developing and managing a technical workforce with the expertise to uniformly implement OSD and Air Force engineering guidance and policies. These efforts provide stability in Air Force Acquisition by integrating major processes to reverse trends toward unpredictable program cost, schedule, and performance to facilitate quick response to urgent operational needs from across the entire spectrum of potential conflicts. These integrated capabilities will provide OSD and AF acquisition leadership insights needed to effectively manage a complex portfolio of acquisition programs through more timely and reliable access to authoritative acquisition data. Additionally, this program supports the Great Power Competition through an enterprise decision-making forum with proper authorities and oversight to ensure product support decisions are informed from an AF enterprise perspective to efficiently leverage resources and optimize support to the warfighter at an enterprise level.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (8)

Acquisition Mandates

Supporting Congressional, SECDEF, and SECAF mandates. Program funding provides the framework for Air Force business and acquisition.

Technical and Analytical Support

Supports Acquisition Domain-level effort to integrate existing acquisition business systems/services, data, and processes supporting key Acquisition capabilities at the enterprise level (via the Acquisition Domain Capabilities Integration (ADCI) activities). This support entails analysis required to architect an integrated environment on multiple hosting platforms to support the portfolio of acquisition business systems by solving problems across/outside of individual system boundaries with the goal of reducing redundancy, improving systems operations, and improving management of data resulting in dramatically improved transparency, efficiency, and effective management of the Acquisition process. This support also helps implement standards for data management and service-oriented design methodology to facilitate efficiency and interoperability as well as providing some business intelligence services. The creation and support of domain-level requirements and governance processes as well as the creation of domain-wide data standards are additional support items provided. In addition, includes support for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) pilots, experimentation associated with business analytics, acquisition program performance measures, and predictive analytics in support of decision-making and workforce training for the acquisition enterprise.

Great Power Competition

Supports an enterprise decision-making forum with proper authorities and oversight to ensure product support decisions are informed from an AF enterprise perspective to efficiently leverage resources and optimize support to the warfighter at an enterprise level.

Acquisition Management in support of PEO Business Enterprise Systems

Funds AF required Network Operations/LAN at Gunter, Enterprise MITRE Support, IT Services, operational AF help desks, and A&AS in support of the SECAF and SAF/AQ vision within PEO BES.

Project Management Resource Tools (PMRT)

Upgrade enterprise PMRT tools that provide program/project resource management support to the Acquisition community.

Capabilities Integration Environment (CIE)

CIE is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider that enables application proofs-of-concept, development, integration, and test activities in accredited on-premises government cloud and third-party commercial cloud environments.

USAF Artificial Intelligence Accelerator at MIT

Establish the first phase of a state-of-the-art, end-to-end, sustainable ecosystem of AI technology from basic research to transformed data sets ready for use in developing artificial intelligence algorithms and operational prototypes. This effort creates an environment where integrated teams of MIT researchers and USAF Airmen develop Challenge Problems in AI and invites the academic and commercial communities to propose solutions to those Challenge Problems.

Development and Retention

Supports activities to develop, manage and retain the acquisition workforce.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY24 Actuals$24.4M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY25 Enacted$25.2M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY25 Total$25.2M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY26 Disc. Request$22.7M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY26 Total$22.7M

Budget Details(R-2/P-40 facts)

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$0$24.4M$25.2M$22.7M$22.7M
66ACSI: ACQ and Command Support Integration$0$24.4M$25.2M$22.7M$22.7M

No follow-the-dollar view — this program's awards haven't been crosswalked at high confidence (flows cover 17 of 1741 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.

No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1741 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →