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Fiscal Receipts

Space Domain Awareness/Planning/Tasking SW

FRDT&EPartial Reconciliation1208248SF
What it is
Space Domain Awareness/Planning/Tasking SW — a research & development program run by Air Force.
What changed
+$55.3M FY25→26
Who gets it
No award linkage at high confidence.

Budget Figures

FY24 Actuals
$130.2M
FY25 Total
$145.7M
FY26 Request
$201.0M
FY25→26 Change
$55.3M

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: $130.2MFY25: $145.7MFY26: $201.0MFY24FY25FY26
FY24
$130.2M
FY25
$145.7M
FY26
$201.0M
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$192.0M$130.2M
Enacted$0$155.6M$122.3M$145.7M
Request$155.1M$122.3M$157.3M$201.0M

blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.

Asked vs spent: the PB2023 book requested $155.1M for FY2023; the PB2025 book reports $192.0M actually spent — $36.9M above 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 SSA/BMC2

The FY 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (Sections 873/874) directed the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) to streamline software development. The Space Domain Awareness (SDA)/Planning/Tasking software program is an OSD pilot initiative in which all lifecycle funding is tracked under Budget Activity 08 (BA 08), Software and Digital Technology Pilot Programs, beginning in FY 2021. Pilot programs enable the execution of modern software development practices encompassing development, procurement, sustainment, modification, and maintenance activities within a single Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) appropriation in this Program Element (PE). The Space Force is developing SDA/Planning/Tasking functions for the United States Space Force (USSF) and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM). Capabilities will initially be delivered to Space Operations Command (SpOC) and U.S. Space Forces - Space (S4S). The SDA/Planning/Tasking software program provides a collaborative environment that will enhance and modernize SDA and Battle Management Command and Control (BMC2) capabilities; create decision-relevant views of the space and multi-domain environment; rapidly detect, track, and characterize objects of interest; identify/exploit traditional and non-traditional sources; perform space threat analysis; and enable efficient distribution of data across the Space Surveillance Network (SSN). The program maintains enterprise infrastructure, platform, and data services, and develops mission applications to enable responsive, resilient operational-level SDA/Planning/Tasking capabilities for the National Space Defense Center (NSDC), Combined Space Operations Center (CSpOC), Mission Delta 2 (MD 2) and other Command and Control (C2) centers. Employing an agile-based Rapid Delivery Framework (RDF) with a 90-day Program Increment (PI) construct, fosters a collaborative and integrated environment for the community to effectively plan and deliver C2 capabilities. The enterprise-wide system provides a common government infrastructure and processes to allow C2 capabilities at USSF operational Deltas to rapidly address the evolving and dynamic threat. The program also identifies shared/common platform, infrastructure, and data layer solutions to support open frameworks and architectures across the enterprise ground portfolio. Funding includes technical studies, development, experimentation, integration, and related support costs. 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 8, Software and Digital Technology Pilot Program because this budget activity includes funding provided for expenses necessary for agile development, test and evaluation, procurement, production and modification, and the operation and maintenance of these programs.

Justification

Accomplishments & Planned Programs (2)

SDA/Planning/Tasking Development

This program delivers a robust and responsive Space Domain Awareness (SDA) and Battle Management Command and Control (BMC2) capability to meet emerging threats. The program will deliver capability for decision makers trying to prevent a conflict from extending to space or winning it if it does. Capabilities and associated infrastructure include, but are not limited to, the following: SDA processing and exploitation, Indications & Warning (I&W), Planning & Tasking, Theater & Coalition Support, Transmit/Receive, Space Control, Tactical Operations and Common Data Management Layer, Platforms and Infrastructure; and Cyber and Threat Warning. The program maintains foundational Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) enablers such as, but not limited to, Data as a Service, Zero Trust Architecture, Platform Support, Continuous Improvement/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) toolchain, and infrastructure and inherent sustainment efforts that are an integral part of the agile software development process. Other activities include dedicated Systems Engineering & Integration (SE&I), Test & Evaluation (T&E), Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and prototype Validation & Verification to support these efforts.

SDA/Planning/Tasking Sustainment

The program maintains existing capability for the National Space Defense Center (NSDC), Combined Space Operations Center (CSpOC) and other C2 centers. These tasks include maintaining the Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) software database, removing, and canceling decommissioned systems and unused tools, adding new tools required for ongoing support of the system, maintaining data support systems, and maintaining day-to-day software operations which continuously ensures and optimizes reliability, security, resiliency, availability, flexibility and scalability of the warfighter tools.

Budget Line Items(workbook-cited)

Exhibit R-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space ForceFFY24 Actuals$130.2M
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space ForceFFY25 Enacted$145.7M
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space ForceFFY25 Total$145.7M
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space ForceFFY26 Disc. Request$201.0M
Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space ForceFFY26 Total$201.0M

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

ProjectAll Prior YearsFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$0$130.2M$145.7M$201.0M$201.0M
68A035: SSA/BMC2$0$130.2M$145.7M$201.0M$201.0M

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? →