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Commercial SATCOM (COMSATCOM) Integration
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 | $69.0M |
| FY25 | $134.5M |
| FY26 | $132.1M |
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 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | $41.7M | $22.6M | $18.4M | $69.0M | ||
| Enacted | – | $43.2M | $23.4M | $23.4M | $73.5M | $134.5M | |
| Request | – | – | $23.4M | $23.5M | $73.5M | $134.5M | $132.1M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $23.5M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reported $18.4M as actual total obligation authority — $5.15M below the request. 18.36 − 23.51 = -5.15 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 — Commercial SATCOM (COMSATCOM) Integration
Commercial Satellite Communication (COMSATCOM) Integration develops, prototypes and demonstrates the capabilities required to fully leverage COMSATCOM as part of the Department of Defense's (DoD) SATCOM enterprise. The United States Space Force (USSF) has determined that an enterprise approach to the procurement, delivery and management of its SATCOM capabilities is the best means to create an environment that is responsive to Combatant Commanders and other users across the spectrum of conflict. In addition, an enterprise approach will improve affordability, Department purchasing power and mission assurance. Project 650140, COMSATCOM, will rapidly prototype and deliver Enterprise Management and Control (EM&C) integration tools and mission applications enabling warfighters to operate responsive and resilient SATCOM as a single enterprise. Project 651126, COMSATCOM Infrastructure, will develop and stand up COMSATCOM business and customer management tools, finalizing the Congressionally directed migration from Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) systems to USSF systems. Development of enhanced COMSATCOM acquisition capabilities leverage enterprise innovation activities focused on transforming how DoD acquires, accesses and deploys COMSATCOM capabilities. The COMSATCOM Project 650140 includes an International Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) SATCOM for the USSF to partner, explore, prototype, and integrate an international commercial SATCOM service into the DoD SATCOM enterprise. Luxembourg (LUX) MEO establishes the baseline satellite capability in partnership with the LUX Ministry of Defense (MoD), leveraging the commercial satellite communications system in MEO. The funding in the International MEO SATCOM will be used to demonstrate the onboarding of MEO commercial SATCOM services into the SATCOM architecture and Space Data Transport Force Design. Demonstrations will include utilizing EM&C for provisioning and planning, usage of Protected Tactical Waveform (PTW) over MEO Commercial SATCOM and integration of Protected Tactical Enterprise Services (PTES) hubs into commercial SATCOM capable gateways. Early adaption of capability will also be used to prototype and demonstrate fiber resiliency for large gateway backhaul via space. Capacity will further be used to demonstrate platforms use of multi-orbital terminals for Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (AISR), maritime communications and ground force mobile communications. Luxembourg is also procuring commercial SATCOM services and will contribute to international demonstration and testing of integrated and interoperable ground and space architecture elements. This partnership will also enable additional international partners to join and demonstrate the ability to bulk buy future capacity together to drive cost savings. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such program funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program elements 1206392SF and 1206398SF. This program is in Budget Activity 5, System Development and Demonstration (SDD) because it has passed Milestone B approval and is conducting engineering and manufacturing development tasks aimed at meeting validated requirements prior to full rate production.
Mission — COMSATCOM
The backbone of Fighting SATCOM is a SATCOM EM&C capability for an Integrated SATCOM Enterprise. This is the foundation for SATCOM integration into an operational level Command and Control (C2) system that enables the end-to-end sensor-to-shooter execution serving to protect and defend, as well as theatre support missions for United States Space Command (USSPACECOM) and the Theater Combatant Commands. SATCOM EM&C applications will provide critical services to warfighters to facilitate timely, quality driven battlespace decisions for SATCOM allocation and use. The effort leverages a Development Security Operations (DevSecOps) platform to rapidly prototype and deliver EM&C mission applications enabling responsive, resilient SATCOM as prioritized by Space Operations Command (SpOC), Delta 8, SATCOM Integrated Operations Division (SIOD), and four Consolidated SATCOM Systems Experts (CSSEs). The four CSSEs cover Wideband, Narrowband, Protected, and Commercial SATCOM bands. SATCOM EM&C applications are delivered in capability categories identified in the DoD Chief Information Officer's (CIO) Enterprise SATCOM Management and Control (ESC-MC) Implementation Plan. Capabilities are incrementally developed using agile methodology and delivered into subsets identified in the DoD CIO's Implementation Plan, which will support the three imperatives (integrate data management, automate resource allocation, fuse situational awareness) and seven core capabilities (mobility and continuous communications, management common operating environment, enterprise SATCOM situational awareness/common operating picture, automated resource allocation, electromagnetic interference mitigation, continuity of operations, element/enterprise network interface) across the four SATCOM bands. In addition to USSF developed EM&C capabilities, USSF will demonstrate the onboarding of MEO commercial SATCOM services into the SATCOM architecture and Space Data Transport Force Design. The LUX MEO activity is an initial effort for the USSF to partner, explore, prototype, and integrate an international commercial SATCOM service into the DoD SATCOM enterprise. Demonstrations will include utilizing EM&C for provisioning and planning, usage of PTW over MEO Commercial SATCOM, and integration of PTES hubs into commercial satellite capable gateways. Early adoption of capability will also be used to prototype and demonstrate fiber resiliency for large gateway backhaul via space. Capacity will further be used to demonstrate platforms use of multi-orbital terminals for AISR, maritime communications and communications on the move. Luxembourg government is also procuring commercial SATCOM services to contribute to international demonstration and testing of integrated and interoperable ground and space architecture elements. This international partnership intends to demonstrate the ability to jointly procure communication capacity services that will result in a higher return on US DoD SATCOM investment and potentially lead to future international partnering opportunities. Activity priorities are subject to change as determined by the operational user, SpOC, Delta 8.
Mission — COMSATCOM Infrastructure
In accordance with the FY 2018 National Defense Authorization Act 1601(a), as amended, and on behalf of the CSO and in consultation with the DoD CIO, the USSF Commercial Satellite Communications Office (CSCO), serves as the sole authority for the procurement of COMSATCOM services for the DoD; this responsibility was previously held by DISA. In order to provide the joint warfighter with modernized access to COMSATCOM services and ensure combat effectiveness across all domains, the CSCO requires a comprehensive COMSATCOM Enterprise Technology (COMET) Systems of Systems to provide required business suite financial management and customer and contract support systems. The COMET programs implementation of the COMSATCOM Business Suite (CBS) tool is also critical to complete the Congressionally mandated COMSATCOM mission transition from DISA to USSF. The CBS tool will have multiple components including: (1) Business Suite & Marketplace designed to automate and streamline requests for work and customer interaction, thereby replacing manual processes for over 100 different contracts valued at $5 billion over the future year defense program; (2) Financial Management System required to operate a new and cutting-edge Enterprise Space Activity Group (ESAG) under the Air Force Working Capital Funds (AFWCF); (3) Integration with third party systems and capabilities, including cloud-based hosting and EM&C - the nexus of future USSF space-based SATCOM C2.
Justification
Accomplishments & Planned Programs (4)
Enterprise Integration of Fighting SATCOM (EM&C)
USSF is developing software capabilities to achieve Chief of Space Operations (CSO) vision of evolving SATCOM into a single enterprise. The three core imperatives that EM&C addresses are integrating data management, automating resource allocation, and fusing situational awareness. The EM&C program ensures that our forces remain agile and responsive in contested, degraded and operationally limited environments, meeting the demands of the warfighter and maintaining a strategic edge over near-peer adversaries.
Commercial Integration Cell
Information sharing is the foundation of how we conduct any activity in space. Space related threats and operational sharing with the USG, private sector, and Allies and partners is imperative for day-to-day operations. USSF should be compelled to develop the structure to manage, enforce, correct, and continually improve on threat I&W as it impacts the operational environment. As USSF's Commercial Augmentation Space Reserve (CASR) program continues to develop formal processes for threat information sharing as an incentive for commercial participation, the U.S. Space Forces- Space (S4S) Commercial Integration Cell (CIC) remains a force multiplier and a catalyst for real- time information sharing with the commercial sector across security classifications. To enhance and build onto the asymmetrical advantage CIC provides, and as the method by which the US can execute the CASR program, SSC's Commercial Space Office (COMSO) seeks to enable the enhancement of the CIC's operationally relevant information sharing capability through CASR's contractual framework, offering the USG surge capacity beyond the currently limited CIC construct. Funds in this Major Thrust will be executed under Project 651126.
International Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) SATCOM
US DoD and LUX MoD is pursuing a Global Commercially Contracted (GCC) SATCOM Support Partnership (SP) through the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) to establish a contracting mechanism to procure commercially available SATCOM on behalf of both nations and leverage economies of scale. By partnering with the LUX MoD for mPOWER satellite access, the DoD can leverage a multi-year international arrangement to drive affordability, resiliency, and flexibility into military SATCOM architectures that align with USSF SATCOM vision to deploy multi-orbit, multi-frequency capabilities. This international partnership intends to demonstrate the ability to jointly procure communication capacity services that will result in a higher return on US DoD SATCOM investment and lead to future international partnering opportunities.
COMSATCOM Enterprise Technology (COMET) System of Systems
SSC establishment of mission critical COMSATCOM support systems to enable transformational change to the acquisition of COMSATCOM, increasing speed to service, improving quality of service, reducing costs, and laying the foundation to incorporate new industry innovations into the future. Development of the CBS tool will enable transition and enhance the existing COMSATCOM customer-facing tools and background financial management data systems from DISA to the USSF. The CBS tool is required to automate and securely distribute COMSATCOM services and capabilities to stakeholders in order to improve the ordering, billing, activation, provisioning, and other financial management tasks currently leveraging DISA capability.
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 | $69.0M |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY25 Enacted | $134.5M |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY25 Total | $134.5M |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY26 Disc. Request | $132.1M |
| Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force | F | FY26 Total | $132.1M |
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 | $69.0M | $134.5M | $132.1M | $132.1M |
| 650140: COMSATCOM | $0 | $69.0M | $129.5M | $132.1M | $132.1M |
| 651126: COMSATCOM Infrastructure | $0 | $0 | $4.99M | $0 | $0 |
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
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 Commercial SATCOM (COMSATCOM) Integration. 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 · J813
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2022 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J815
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2022_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2023 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J783
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2023_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J774
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_R-1_Research-Development-Test-Evaluation.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: RDT&E Programs (R-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit R-1 · J794
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_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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