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Space Warfighting Analysis
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Budget figures
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
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $101.3M |
| FY25 | $121.4M |
| FY26 | $126.0M |
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
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 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | $0 | $42.3M | $101.3M | ||
| Enacted | – | $0 | $42.3M | $99.1M | $121.4M | |
| Request | – | – | $44.8M | $99.1M | $121.4M | $126.0M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $44.8M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reported $42.3M as actual total obligation authority — $2.49M below the request. 42.3 − 44.8 = -2.5 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 — Space Warfighting Analysis
This Program Element (PE) 1203622, Space Warfighting Analysis Center (SWAC) funds increased scope towards capability area analyses and integration, modeling, integrated modeling & analysis, and experimentation to create operational concepts and force design guidance for existing and emerging USSF missions. These analyses efforts team with relevant stakeholders across the National Security Space enterprise from an independent perspective and will provide analytic insight to the Service to inform and/or validate solutions to operational needs and provide a basis for future capability development programs. USSF force design analyses are organized into three focus areas: Multi-Domain Sensing, Spectrum Warfare, and Force Design Integration which are aligned to USSF priorities, and follow a disciplined approach to discover, analyze, and validate concepts and the associated family of systems required to satisfy current/future mission needs while including comprehensive threat analysis. The resulting force design products will help define and inform future USSF mission requirements, capabilities/architectures, priorities and funding needs, and interface standards. This program element includes necessary emergent/unanticipated civilian pay expenses required to manage and execute the force design mission assigned to the SWAC and/or deliver products for evolving weapon system capabilities. 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 — Space Warfighting Analysis Center (SWAC)
This Program Element (PE) 1203622, Space Warfighting Analysis Center (SWAC) funds increased scope towards capability area analyses and integration, modeling, integrated modeling & analysis, and experimentation to create operational concepts and force design guidance for existing and emerging USSF missions. Capability Area design analyses identify the integrated suite of operational capabilities that fulfills USSF imperatives to preserve the United States' freedom of action in space; enables Joint Force lethality and effectiveness; and provides the Service options for developing capabilities operating in, from, and to space. These analyses efforts team with relevant stakeholders across the National Security Space enterprise from an independent perspective and will provide analytic insight to the Service to inform and/or validate solutions to operational needs and provide a basis for future capability development programs. USSF force design analyses are organized into three main focus areas: Multi-Domain Sensing, Spectrum Warfare, and Force Design Integration which are aligned to USSF priorities, and follow a disciplined approach to discover, analyze, and validate concepts and the associated family of systems required to satisfy current/future mission needs while including comprehensive threat analysis. The resulting force design products will help define and inform future USSF mission requirements, capabilities/architectures, priorities, funding needs, and interface standards. This program element may include necessary emergent/unanticipated civilian pay expenses required to manage and execute the force design mission assigned to the SWAC and/or deliver products for evolving weapon system capabilities. 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 (2)
SWAC Government Workforce
Provide professional government civilian acquisition workforce in support of the Space Warfighting Analysis Center. Activities may include, but are not limited to program office support, studies, technical analysis, prototyping, etc.
Space Warfighting Analysis Center (SWAC)
Space Warfighting Analysis Center is the foundational element to develop and provide authoritative Force Design recommendations for the United States Space Force (USSF).
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 | $97.7M |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY24 Actuals | $3.57M |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY25 Enacted | $121.4M |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY25 Total | $121.4M |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY26 Disc. Request | $126.0M |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY26 Total | $126.0M |
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 — line 1 | $0 | $3.57M | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| 646021: Space Warfighting Analysis | $0 | $3.57M | $121.4M | $126.0M | $126.0M |
| Program Element — line 2 | — | $97.7M | $121.4M | $126.0M | $126.0M |
Follow the dollar
Appropriation → program element → top high-confidence awards → recipient families → congressional districts.
Follow-the-dollar covers 312 of 1,938 programs — only high-confidence budget→award links are shown. why coverage is partial? →
The diagram illustrates the cited table below — amounts shown in the diagram are transaction sums per award (no citation chips); the per-district obligations in the table cite USAspending queries.
| District | Program obligations |
|---|---|
| MD-03 | $89.9M |
Related awards
Award linkage is shown for 32 of 200 profiled companies — high- and medium-confidence USAspending matches, each row labeled; medium is the weaker evidence. why partial award coverage? →
| Recipient | PIID | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC | FA881920F1005 | high |
Contractor concentration
No concentration index is published for this line. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. An index below that floor is a fact about the sample, not about the market. Whatever further links this line carries are medium-confidence, and what each medium evidence path does and does not establish is set out in the methodology. Both bases are in the downloadable warehouse.
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 Space Warfighting Analysis. No program-specific GAO finding for this line is in the ingested data. See the DOD oversight record.
Program dossier
No research dossier for this program — dossiers cover 50 of 1,938 programs, the largest fully J-book-detailed lines by FY2026 requested dollars. why no dossier here? →
Primary sources
Open any budget figure for its exact receipt. Verified line items lead with the highlighted government PDF; original spreadsheets download with their budget edition and exhibit in the filename.
Budget totals · TOA sources
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · M788
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2023 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J757
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2023_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J768
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J747
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
Detailed budget justification
The related TOA spreadsheets above use a different accounting basis from R-2/P-40 detail. Their amounts are not assumed to match these detailed sources.
FY2026 Space Force Research and Development Test and Evaluation · www.saffm.hq.af.mil
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