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Compass Call
Budget figures
$167.4M 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 · $167.4M TOA − $0 J-book line (a zero-dollar XML line) = 167.4M (167.4 − 0.0 = 167.4) — $167.4M 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 | $144.7M |
| FY25 | $94.7M |
| FY26 | $167.4M |
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 | $195.1M | $883.9M | $144.7M | ||
| Enacted | – | $881.0M | $144.7M | $94.7M | |
| Request | – | – | $144.7M | $94.7M | $167.4M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
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 — Compass Call
Compass Call is the Air Force's wide-area, standoff, Airborne Electromagnetic Attack (AEA) Command and Control Warfare/Information Operations (C2W/IO) weapon system. The employment of this weapon system interrupts the adversary's use of the electromagnetic battlespace and is a key active component in the information battlespace and prosecution of current ground and airborne threats. Compass Call's sophisticated electromagnetic attack system is capable of surgical denial and/or disruption of adversary Radio Frequency (RF) communications, radar and sensor systems. Procurement funds are required for aircraft purchase, modification kit production (hardware, firmware, and software), installation, integration engineering, certification and test on an EA-37B re-host platform in accordance with the spiral baseline upgrade schedule. In FY 2017, the Compass Call re-host program was initiated prompting transition of mission capabilities from the legacy EC-130H airframe to an EA-37B airframe. The re-hosted Compass Call platform is based on a commercial derivative G550 aircraft holding Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Supplemental Type Certificates (STCs) for airworthiness. The platform will undergo modifications to host Compass Call's Prime Mission Equipment (PME) and antenna arrays and will receive additional STCs and Military Type Certificates (MTCs). The EA-37B aircraft will re-use PME from the EC-130H aircraft that will be upgraded to the latest Baseline. Due to the age of the EC-130H fleet, re-hosting of the PME is crucial to ensuring the longevity of this critical capability. In an effort to put capability into the warfighter's hands as soon as possible, the EA-37B program pursues concurrent developmental and production activities. Transitioning to the re-host effort, the program of record has procured ten (10) commercial derivative aircraft to date. The first five (5) EA-37B aircraft, procured in FY 2017-FY 2020, will be delivered in the Baseline 3 (BL3) configuration. The remaining EA-37B aircraft, procured in FY 2021 and FY 2023, will be delivered in the Baseline 4 (BL4) configuration. The strategy for modifying aircraft with future spiral baseline upgrades will optimize delivery of warfighter capability required to meet Combatant Command needs. The current Compass Call EA-37B program of record includes the following: ten (10) EA-37B aircraft, two (2) Compass Call Mission Crew Simulators (CCMCS), and one (1) Weapon System Trainer (WST). Due to rapidly changing threat environment and operational demand leveraging Compass Call capabilities, the acquisition program manager may redirect funding as necessary to meet current stated and emerging/evolving Combatant Commander requirements. EA-37B re-host procurement and integration of the BL3 and BL4 PME modification kits onto the ten (10) air vehicles are performed under line item CALL00 / Modification Number 1003 / COMPASS CALL Baseline Modifications. Procurement and installation of future spiral baseline upgrade kits (beyond BL3 and BL4) are performed under line item CALL00 / Modification Number 1004 / COMPASS CALL Baseline Upgrades. Procurement of the air vehicles for re-host was performed under the Aircraft Procurement, Air Force appropriation, Budget Activity 04, Budget Sub Activity 05 under P-1 line item CALL00 / COMPASS CALL. Modification of the EC-130H aircraft was historically performed under line item CALL00 / Modification Number 1001. Funding may be used to address obsolescence and Diminishing Manufacturing Sources (DMS) issues. Funding for this exhibit is contained in PE 0207253F. Compass Call modification efforts include, but are not limited to, activities associated with aircraft system integration, assembly, test and checkout; change management; engineering change orders; certification; non-developmental mission system upgrades; simulation and training system upgrades and modifications; external communications upgrades and modification; software integration and updates; systems engineering; test and evaluation; training; support equipment; obsolescence; Program Support Costs (PSC); aircraft PME upgrades; baseline upgrades and enhancements; and used aircraft modifications. The FY 2026 request for Compass Call includes 0 thousand of discretionary and 167,369 thousand of mandatory for a total of 167,369 thousand. The mandatory funds increase EA-37B production by procuring and installing BL3, BL4, and future Baseline kits onto ten air vehicles. Further information for this reconciliation request is provided in Section 20007 (Air Superiority) of the Reconciliation Exhibit. The FY2026 funding increase allows for the Weapon System Trainer, System Integration Lab enhancements, advanced capabilities automation improvement, and testing for airborne electronic attack superiority.
Justification
Justification — Compass Call
EA-37B re-host procurement and integration of the BL3 and BL4 PME modification kits onto the ten (10) air vehicles are performed under line item CALL00 / Modification Number 1003 / COMPASS CALL Baseline Modifications. Procurement and installation of future spiral baseline upgrade kits (beyond BL3 and BL4) are performed under line item CALL00 / Modification Number 1004 / COMPASS CALL Baseline Upgrades. Where applicable, justification for individual modifications is provided in the P-3A exhibits
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 | $144.7M |
| Aircraft Procurement, Air Force | F | FY25 Enacted | $94.7M |
| Aircraft Procurement, Air Force | F | FY26 Reconciliation | $167.4M |
| Aircraft Procurement, Air Force | F | FY26 Total | $167.4M |
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 | $1.33B | $144.7M | $94.7M | $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 Compass Call. 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 · O897
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2026_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2025 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · Q915
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_DoD_P-1_Procurement.xlsx.
FY2024 Department of Defense Budget: Procurement Programs (P-1) · comptroller.war.gov
Exhibit P-1 · O869
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2024_DoD_P-1_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