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Fiscal Receipts

Rapid Sustainment Modernization (RSM)

FRDT&EPartial Reconciliation0708051F
What it is
Rapid Sustainment Modernization (RSM) — a research & development program run by Air Force.
What changed
-$17.4M FY25→26
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$78.4M
FY25 Total
$50.0M
FY26 Request
$32.7M
FY25→26 Change
-$17.4M

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: $78.4MFY25: $50.0MFY26: $32.7MFY24FY25FY26
FY24
$78.4M
FY25
$50.0M
FY26
$32.7M
Decade view — each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
FY2020 actuals — PB2022 editionFY2021 actuals — PB2023 editionFY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2021 enacted — PB2022 editionFY2022 enacted — PB2023 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2022 request — PB2022 editionFY2023 request — PB2023 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY20FY26

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

SeriesFY20FY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
Actuals$5.80M$34.7M$90.1M$69.0M$78.4M
Enacted$20.0M$65.0M$69.0M$43.4M$50.0M
Request$0$0$43.4M$37.0M$32.7M

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

Asked vs spent: the PB2022 book requested $0 for FY2022; the PB2024 book reports $90.1M actually spent — $90.1M 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 Rapid Sustainment Modernization Technologies

The Rapid Sustainment Modernization program provides funding to accelerate the delivery of critical technologies to improve readiness and reduce sustainment costs. The Rapid Sustainment Office (RSO) will develop, test, and deploy new technologies for implementation across the Department of the Department of the Air Force (DAF) enterprise. The RSO will achieve this by reaching across the enterprise to include the warfighter, depot maintenance, field maintenance, supply chain, and program offices to identify enterprise needs. The RSO will then identify, assess, develop, validate, and verify new technology projects that support these areas. The Technology Focus Areas are Advanced Manufacturing (Additive Manufacturing/Coldspray), Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning (AI/ML), to include but not limited to Condition Based Maintenance Plus (CBM+), RSM Technologies, to include Data and Digital Engineering, Automation/Robotics, Augmented and Virtual Reality, and Rapid and Austere Environments. New technologies in these areas are evaluated in support of the DAF enterprise. Funding in this PE will be used in agile processes to support development activities to rapidly respond to emergent requirements from the DAF enterprise in the year of execution to include but not limited to addressing Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages, reducing unscheduled weapons system maintenance, and enabling maintenance capabilities in austere environments. This PE may fund studies of new technologies to determine applicability to DAF requirements. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses and emergent or unanticipated civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program's funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY 2025 up to $5.086 million is forecasted 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. This requirement supports performance of full financial audit as required by title 10 U.S.C. Chapter 9A, Sec 240-D. 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 (3)

Rapid Sustainment Modernization-AI/ML to include CBM+

AI/ML

Rapid Sustainment Modernization-RSM Technologies

RSM Technologies

Rapid Sustainment Modernization-Advanced Manufacturing

Advanced Repair and Qualification

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY24 Actuals$78.4M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY25 Enacted$50.0M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY25 Total$50.0M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY26 Disc. Request$32.7M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air ForceFFY26 Total$32.7M

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

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$0$78.4M$50.0M$32.7M$32.7M
648051: Rapid Sustainment Modernization Technologies$0$78.4M$50.0M$32.7M$32.7M

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? →