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FABT FORCE ELEMENT TERMINAL
Budget figures
No FY2026 R-1/P-1 request line for this program element. The FY2026 President's Budget request workbook carries no FY2026 line for it; its last workbook figure is FY2025. The PB2026 J-book detail below does carry an FY2026 row for this line, recorded as zero. A workbook blank and a documented zero are different records, and this page shows both. An absent line is not by itself an ending — PB2026 renumbered program elements at scale across the services and defense agencies, so this work may continue under a different number. No successor is linked for this line: this site's program-lineage layer holds no keyed edge pointing forward from here. That is an absence in this site's lineage layer, not a finding about the program: if the J-book narrative on this page describes a realignment, it is quoted below in the document's own words, and this note does not restate it.
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 | $103.2MP-1 TOA · PB2026 |
| FY25 | $210.2MP-1 TOA · PB2026 |
| FY26 | $0J-book detail · 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actuals | $0 | – | $103.2M | |
| Enacted | – | $0 | $121.6M | $210.2M |
| Request | – | – | $121.6M | $234.7M |
blank = series not published for this year; – = absent from that edition.
Asked vs spent: the PB2024 book requested $121.6M for FY2024; the PB2026 book reported $103.2M as actual total obligation authority — $18.4M below the request. 103.2 − 121.6 = -18.4 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 — FABT FORCE ELEMENT TERMINAL
The Family of Advanced Beyond Line-of-Sight Terminals (FAB-T) Force Element Terminal (FET) program was transferred from Space Force (PE 1203001SF / WSC FET000 / Appropriation 3022 / PSF) to Air Force (PE 0303131F / WSC CVR000 / Appropriation 3010 / APAF). Transfer Memo signed by the Space Force and Air Force Service Acquisition Executives (SAEs) on 12 Nov 2024. Activities funded in this program continue to pay for AN/USQ-225 weapons system (WS) modernization, integration into multiple legacy systems, other ongoing Nuclear Command, Control and Communications (NC3) acquisition programs, and future capabilities for the overall AF NC3 WS. FAB-T FET replaces the Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Milstar terminals and provides secure, protected, and survivable communications for the strategic warfighter through airborne-based Military Satellite Communication (MILSATCOM) terminals. The FAB-T FET will provide worldwide nuclear and non-nuclear, survivable, anti-jam Low Probability of Detect (LPD)/Low Probability of Intercept (LPI) data and voice communications. The FAB-T FET will be interoperable with Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF), Enhanced Polar Systems - Recapitalization (EPS-R), and satellite constellations utilizing waveforms will be installed on the B-52 aircraft (threshold). The FAB-T FET development program was executed as a Middle Tier of Acquisition (MTA) under R-1 Program Element 1203001SF, Family of Advanced BLoS Terminals (FAB-T). The program is planned to transition to the Major Capability Acquisition (MCA) Pathway at conclusion of MTA. This budget line provides funding for the follow-on production portion of the program. Funding for this exhibit is contained in PE 1203001SF.
Justification
Justification — FABT FORCE ELEMENT TERMINAL
No FY 2026 funding is required in the Procurement, Space Force (Appropriation 3022) FET000 program line, due to the program's transfer to the Air Force's Aircraft Procurement, Air Force (Appropriation 3010) account. FY 2024 funding actuals reflect a 9.9 million reprogramming due to funds being early to need.
Budget line items(workbook-cited)
P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.
Exhibit P-1
| Account | Org | Type | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Procurement, Space Force | F | FY24 Actuals | $103.2M |
| Procurement, Space Force | F | FY25 Enacted | $210.2M |
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 | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $103.2M | $210.2M | $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 FABT FORCE ELEMENT TERMINAL. 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 · O1008
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 · O972
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 · Q1024
Complete workbook · unchanged saved copy. Saves as PB2025_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 Space Force Procurement · www.saffm.hq.af.mil
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