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C-130J Mods
Budget figures
$214.2M one-time reconciliation. Discretionary change vs FY2025 enacted: -100.0%.
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 that the R-2/P-40 J-book program line excludes — advance procurement in an ordinary year, and in FY2026 the one-time reconciliation appropriation as well. Each row below names the one it is. How the two bases relate →
FY26 Request · $214.2M TOA − $0 J-book line (a zero-dollar XML line) = 214.2M (214.2 − 0.0 = 214.2) — $214.2M of one-time FY2026 reconciliation money accounts for this gap — not advance procurement
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 reports awards on a rolling basis, and this corpus runs through 2026-09-04. why partial FY2026 data? →
Budget trajectory
| Fiscal year | Amount |
|---|---|
| FY24 | $102.3M |
| FY25 | $151.4M |
| FY26 | $214.2M |
All series figures: P-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 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 | FY26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $110.8M | $120.5M | $102.3M | ||
| Enacted | – | $112.3M | $121.3M | $151.4M | |
| Request | – | – | $121.3M | $206.9M | $214.2M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $121.3M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $102.3M as actual total obligation authority — $19.0M below the request. 102.3 − 121.3 = -19.0 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
Description — C-130J Mods
The C-130J is a medium-size transport aircraft capable of performing a variety of combat delivery (tactical airlift) operations across a broad range of mission environments. The C-130J aircraft, with its extended (by 15 ft) fuselage, provides additional cargo carrying capacity for the USAF combat delivery mission compared with legacy C-130E/Hs and the C-130J (short). Other variants of the USAF C-130J fleet are all short-bodied aircraft and include the WC-130J (weather reconnaissance), HC-130J (combat search and rescue), MC-130J (special operations), and the AC-130J (close air support and armed reconnaissance). 7 EC-130Js have been repurposed: 2 now ground trainers, 2 back up inventory, 1 test asset, and 2 are being converted to C-130Js and will be used at the C-130J School House. To date there have been 303 USAF C-130J variant deliveries. Variants include 149 C-130J; ten (10) C-130J (short); ten (10) WC-130J; 39 HC-130J; and, 95 MC/AC-130J. The designed service life is 35 years and the average service life remaining is C-130J 22.0 years, C-130J (short) 9.4 years, WC-130J (11.3 years), AC/MC/HC service life remaining is reported in the HC/MC Modifications P-Doc. Funding may be used to address Diminishing Manufacturing Sources (DMS) issues. In FY 2026, the center wing box replacement program continues with the installation of enhanced service life (ESL) center wing kits and the procurement of ESL kits. Since Nov 2009, all production C-130Js have been delivered with the ESL center wing. In order to better manage the fleet and to avoid simultaneously supporting three separate aircraft configurations (Block 6, Block 7 and Block 8.1), Blocks 7.0 and 8.1 have been combined into one aircraft modification program. This way the aircraft and trainers will only have to be modified one time. The Block 8.1 mod includes Block 7.0 content. Block 8.1 includes ADS-B Out and Mode V IFF as well as 34 additional capabilities. In order to meet the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 2020 mandate, the USAF installed the Block 8.1 ADS-B Out/Mode V IFF solution on all C-130J variants not scheduled to receive Block 8.1 by January 2020. Block 8.1 was cut into production with the FY20 C-130J A/C. This funding includes Rapid Global Mobility (RGM) platform related activities including but not limited to fielding actions. NOTE: USMC KC-130Js and USCG HC-130Js are following USAF's lead and will also field combined Block 7/8.1 aircraft. Funding for this exhibit is contained in PE 0401132F and PE 0401897F.
Justification
Justification — C-130J Mods
The FY 2026 request for C-130J Mods includes $0,000 thousand of discretionary and $214,234 thousand of mandatory (reconciliation) for a total of 214.234 thousand. The mandatory funds will provide funding for the following modifications: Center Wing, Outer Wing, Block 8.1, Block 8.1 Group B Kits for HC-130Js, EC-130J Conversion to C-130J, Communication, External Fuel Tank, Avionics Systems and Structures, and Low-Cost. Further information for this reconciliation request is provided in Section 20007 (Air Superiority) of the Reconciliation Exhibit.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit P-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aircraft Procurement, Air Force | F | FY24 Actuals | $102.3M |
| Aircraft Procurement, Air Force | F | FY25 Enacted | $151.4M |
| Aircraft Procurement, Air Force | F | FY26 Reconciliation | $214.2M |
| Aircraft Procurement, Air Force | F | FY26 Total | $214.2M |
Exhibit P-1R
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aircraft Procurement, Air Force | F | FY24 Actuals | $0 |
| Aircraft Procurement, Air Force | F | FY25 Enacted | $12.0M |
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 | $986.1M | $102.3M | $151.4M | $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 C-130J Mods. 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: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O895
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O867
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O913
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2026 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1R) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1R · N242
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_P-1R_Procurement.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 Air Force Aircraft Procurement, Vol. I · www.saffm.hq.af.mil
PDF page 105