Printed from https://fiscalreceipts.com/program/1203154SF/ — data as of August 12, 2026. Every figure is citation-backed; see the page online for per-number provenance.
Long Range Kill Chains
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Budget Figures
$1.92M discretionary + $7.70B one-time reconciliation. Discretionary change vs FY2025 enacted: -99.2%.
Two official figures, one label— reconciled below
Fiscal Receipts uses P-1/R-1 workbook total obligation authority (TOA) as the headline figure sitewide. The workbook TOA includes budget rows (such as advance procurement) that the R-2/P-40 J-book program line excludes. How the two bases relate →
FY26 Request · $7.70B TOA − $1.92M J-book line = 7.70B (7,696.9 − 1.9 = 7,695.0)
Figures in the sentence are rounded for reading; the parenthesised arithmetic is the same subtraction in USD millions, at the precision where it closes.
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? →
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $186.0M |
| FY25 | $244.1M |
| FY26 | $7.70B |
All series figures: R-1 TOA · PB2026
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.
| Series | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | – | $186.0M | ||
| Enacted | – | $0 | $243.0M | $244.1M | |
| Request | – | – | $243.0M | $244.1M | $7.70B |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $243.0M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $186.0M as actual total obligation authority — $57.1M below the request. 185.97 − 243.04 = -57.07 USD millions — the compact figures above are rounded for reading.
Program Lineage
1203154SF — Long Range Kill ChainsSuccessors (funding flowed out)
- realigned to · per FY2026 J-book
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“In FY 2026, Project Moving Target Indicator is transferred to Program Element 1203155SF to better align efforts with the USSF mission areas.”
Family Funding Line
Funding chain: 1203154SF1203155SF — Long Range Kill Chains
- FY2024$243.0M
- FY2025$244.1M
- FY2026
1203154SF$7.70B1203155SF$1.06B
Description
Mission — Long Range Kill Chains
In FY 2026, Project Moving Target Indicator is transferred to Program Element 1203155SF to better align efforts with the USSF mission areas. In FY 2026, Project Auxiliary Payloads was erroneously transferred to Program Element 1203609SF. This funding will be realigned back to PE 1203154SF for proper execution following enactment. The FY 2026 request for Long Range Kill Chains includes $1,916 thousand of discretionary and $1,255,000 thousand of mandatory (reconciliation) for a total of $1,256,916 thousand. The mandatory supports the Golden Dome Integration Office and requirements that can be discussed under separate cover. Further information for this reconciliation request is provided in Sections 20003 (Missile Defense) & 20009 (INDOPACOM Capabilities) of the Reconciliation Exhibit. In addition, the FY 2026 request for Long Range Kill Chains includes $6,440,000 thousands Mandatory funding in this PE under BA 5. Further information for this reconciliation request is provided in Sections 20003 (Missile Defense). This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.
Mission — Moving Target Indicator
The space-based GMTI system will replace a portion of the aging E-8C JSTARS sensing capability, based upon the Space Warfighting Analysis Center's (SWAC's) analysis of alternatives assessment completed in September 2022. Proper funding is critical to ensure this system is in place to support the warfighter before all JSTARS aircraft retire. Space-based GMTI is not a one-for-one swap for the E-8 JSTARS slated to retire, but rather an evolved weapon system that serves as the next generation moving target indicator for the warfighter. GMTI capability will be critical to tracking surface targets in Competition, Crisis, and Conflict environments. This will be accomplished from space, instead of from JSTARS aircraft which will not be capable of operating in a contested/non-permissive environment. Space-based GMTI will provide another way to harness data from the space domain and incorporate it into the secure cloud environment underpinning the ABMS to sense, make sense, and act faster than our adversaries. The Department of the Air Force will maximize partnerships with the Intelligence Community (IC) and use of mature commercial technologies to accelerate the acquisition timeline and meet the GMTI needs of the warfighter. Moved to PE 1203155SF to align with the rest of the program's budget.
Mission — Auxiliary Payloads
In FY 2026, Project 67113 Auxiliary Payloads was erroneously transferred to Program Element 1203609SF. This funding will be realigned back to PE 1203154SF for proper execution following enactment. The Auxiliary Payloads project provides the additional communication relay space vehicles required to increase system access and capacity to the levels required to enable warfighters with the capability to rapidly move target data around the globe and execute long range kill chains.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (2)
Moving Target Indicator
Moving Target Indicator
Auxiliary Payloads
Auxiliary Payloads
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, Space Force | F | FY24 Actuals | $186.0M |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY25 Enacted | $244.1M |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY25 Total | $244.1M |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY26 Disc. Request | $1.92M |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY26 Reconciliation | $6.44B |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY26 Reconciliation | $1.25B |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY26 Total | $1.26B |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY26 Total | $6.44B |
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 | $186.0M | $244.1M | $1.92M | $1.92M |
| 671112: Moving Target Indicator | $0 | $450.0K | $839.0K | $0 | $0 |
| 671113: Auxiliary Payloads | $0 | $185.5M | $243.3M | $1.92M | $1.92M |
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 Long Range Kill Chains — no program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
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Research dossiers exist for 50 of 1,741 programs — the 50 largest fully J-book-detailed programs by FY2026 request. why no dossier here? →
What it is
- Long Range Kill Chains (budget line 1203154SF) is a U.S. Space Force research-and-development program funded in the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Space Force account.
- The program's Auxiliary Payloads project provides additional communication-relay space vehicles that increase system access and capacity, giving warfighters the ability to rapidly move target data around the globe and execute long-range kill chains.
- The program sits in Budget Activity 7 (Operational System Development), the category the Space Force uses for development efforts that upgrade already-fielded systems or systems approved for full-rate production.
- For FY2026, the Auxiliary Payloads project is funded at about $243.3 million (its Current Year amount), making it the dominant project within the program.
- In FY2026 the Moving Target Indicator project — a space-based ground moving-target sensing effort — is transferred out of this program to Program Element 1203155SF to better align efforts with U.S. Space Force mission areas.
Why it matters
- The program's total funding surges from $244,121 thousand in FY2025 to $7,696,916 thousand (about $7.7 billion) requested for FY2026.
- That is a year-over-year increase of $7,452,795 thousand (roughly $7.5 billion) from FY2025 to FY2026.
- In FY2024 the program recorded actual spending of $185,970 thousand (about $186 million), so the FY2026 request is more than forty times its recent execution level.
- Almost the entire FY2026 request is mandatory funding: the R-1 exhibit shows a $6,440,000 thousand reconciliation request under Budget Activity 5 in this program element.
- A separate reconciliation request of $1,255,000 thousand and a discretionary request of $1,916 thousand together make up the program's $1,256,916 thousand base total for FY2026.
- The program's own budget narrative states that the mandatory funding supports the Golden Dome Integration Office, with further detail provided in the Missile Defense and INDOPACOM Capabilities sections of the classified Reconciliation Exhibit.
- A Fiscal Receipts feed event flagged Long Range Kill Chains as increasing 3,053% from FY2025 to FY2026, one of the largest year-over-year swings in the budget.
Key players
- The program is run by the U.S. Space Force, with funding drawn from the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Space Force appropriation.
- The space-based Moving Target Indicator capability associated with the program is intended to replace part of the aging E-8C JSTARS sensing mission, based on a Space Warfighting Analysis Center analysis-of-alternatives assessment completed in September 2022.
- The Department of the Air Force plans to maximize partnerships with the Intelligence Community and use mature commercial technologies to accelerate the moving-target-indicator acquisition timeline for the warfighter.