Rapid Sustainment Modernization… (PE 0708051F) · Air Force

What it is

Rapid Sustainment Modernization (RSM) (0708051F) is an Air Force research & development line funded in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force account. Its J-book detail breaks the line into 1 project.

What changed

-$17.4M FY25→26 R-1 TOA · PB2026

Who gets it

No company is linked to this line. Award records do not carry the program element, so the crosswalk is silent here — why.

Budget figures

FY24 Actuals

$78.4MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25 Total

$50.0MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY26 Request

$32.7MR-1 TOA · PB2026

FY25→26 Change

-$17.4MR-1 TOA · PB2026

Data coverage

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

The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order: 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	$78.4M
FY25	$50.0M
FY26	$32.7M

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

7 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2020–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	FY20	FY21	FY22	FY23	FY24	FY25	FY26
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 reported $90.1M as actual total obligation authority — $90.1M above the request. 90.1 − 0.0 = 90.1 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 — 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-Advanced Manufacturing

Advanced Repair and Qualification

Rapid Sustainment Modernization-RSM Technologies

RSM Technologies

Rapid Sustainment Modernization-AI/ML to include CBM+

AI/ML

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	$78.4M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force	F	FY25 Enacted	$50.0M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force	F	FY25 Total	$50.0M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force	F	FY26 Disc. Request	$32.7M
Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force	F	FY26 Total	$32.7M

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	$78.4M	$50.0M	$32.7M	$32.7M
648051: Rapid Sustainment Modernization Technologies	$0	$78.4M	$50.0M	$32.7M	$32.7M

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

Showing 25 of 37 from the Senate LDA disclosure database.

BOEING COMPANYSustainment|Modernization2026matched 2+ title words

H.R.4016 & S.2572 Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2026. H.R.5342 & 2354 - Commerce, Justice, Science and…

Rapid Sustainment Modernization (RSM)

Budget figures

Budget trajectory

Decade view

Program lineage

Description

Mission — Rapid Sustainment Modernization Technologies source

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (3)

Budget line items(workbook-cited)

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

Follow the dollar

Awards

Lobbying mentions

Oversight

Program dossier

Primary sources

Budget totals · TOA sources

Detailed budget justification

Mission — Rapid Sustainment Modernization Technologies