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Fiscal Receipts

Space Warfighting Analysis

FRDT&EPartial Reconciliation1203622SF
What it is
Space Warfighting Analysis — a research & development program run by Air Force.
What changed
+$4.57M FY25→26
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$101.3M
FY25 Total
$121.4M
FY26 Request
$126.0M
FY25→26 Change
$4.57M

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: $101.3MFY25: $121.4MFY26: $126.0MFY24FY25FY26
FY24
$101.3M
FY25
$121.4M
FY26
$126.0M
Decade view — each figure cites its own President's Budget edition
FY2021 actuals — PB2023 editionFY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2023 actuals — PB2025 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2022 enacted — PB2023 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2025 enacted — PB2026 editionFY2023 request — PB2023 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY2025 request — PB2025 editionFY2026 request — PB2026 editionFY21FY26

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

SeriesFY21FY22FY23FY24FY25FY26
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 reports $42.3M actually spent — $2.49M below 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 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.

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.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (2)

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).

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.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space ForceFFY24 Actuals$97.7M
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space ForceFFY24 Actuals$3.57M
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space ForceFFY25 Enacted$121.4M
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space ForceFFY25 Total$121.4M
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space ForceFFY26 Disc. Request$126.0M
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space ForceFFY26 Total$126.0M

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

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
646021: Space Warfighting Analysis Center (SWAC)$0$97.7M$121.4M$126.0M$126.0M
Program Element$0$3.57M$0$0$0
Program Element$0$97.7M$121.4M$126.0M$126.0M

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? →