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Wideband Gapfiller Satellites(Space)
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 | $0J-book detail · PB2026 |
| FY25 | $10.0MP-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 | $464.0M | – | |
| Enacted | – | $464.0M | – | $10.0M |
| Request | – | – | $0 | $10.0M |
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 — Wideband Gapfiller Satellites(Space)
The Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) System provides the DoD with high data rate Military Satellite Communication (MILSATCOM) services in accordance with the Joint Space Management Board-approved MILSATCOM architecture (August 1996), the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC)-approved MILSATCOM Capstone Requirements Document (October 1997), and JROC-approved WGS Operational Requirements Document (May 2000). This program was originally conceived to augment the near-term "bandwidth gap" in warfighter communications needs. Dual-frequency WGS satellites augment, then replace the DoD's Defense Satellite Communications System X-band service and augment one-way Global Broadcast Service Ka-band capabilities. In addition, WGS provides a high-capacity two-way Ka-band service. Funding for this effort is to develop WGS-11 & 12 modern digital payloads for launch in FY 2025 and FY 2027, respectively, which will increase the availability of military-grade communications by providing more coverage beams than their existing WGS predecessors combined and delivering twice the operational capacity than previous WGS analog satellites. This effort funded $21.982M in FY 2023 to complete WGS-11 production. This effort also funded $442M in FY 2023 for WGS-12 which also includes a tactical anti-jam hosted payload. WGS has 10 operational legacy satellites on-orbit, each developed by building on heritage WGS capabilities. Continually improving WGS capability and leveraging advances in Boeing commercial technology, in FY 2018 the DoD procured a more advanced single WGS-11 satellite enhancing support to the US military, DoD, and allied nations with more flexibility and mission capacity to support dispersed users than previous WGS spacecraft. WGS-11 allows operators to create unique coverage anywhere within the satellite's field of view and custom designed for the mission at hand. In FY 2024, the DoD will procure a WGS-12, an expected clone of the WGS-11 spacecraft. The advanced WGS-11 & 12 payloads under development will produce more coverage beams (over 1500) than the entire existing WGS constellation and deliver twice the mission capacity than WGS-10 can, thereby operationally increase the availability of military-grade communications. WGS Block I consists of satellites 1-3, Block II consists of satellites 4-6 and Block II Follow-on (B2FO) includes satellites 7-12. WGS satellites 1-10 have been funded, procured and launched in previous budget cycles. WGS-11 hosts the Protected Tactical SATCOM (PTS) anti-jam payload, funded under the PTS program, PE 1206761SF. WGS-12 is a planned addition to the B2FO contract, including PTS as a hosted payload. In the Consolidated Appropriations Act, FY 2018, Congress added $600M Space Procurement Air Force (SPAF) in FY 2018 for "full funding for WGS-11 and WGS-12." A sole source Request for Proposal was released to Boeing in June 2018. A final decision was made to procure a single satellite with twice the operational capacity of WGS-10, as the best approach to delivering the directed additional WGS capacity in a cost-effective manner. Total WGS-11 3021/3022 funds are $670.859M. WGS-11 will host a PTS payload providing robust anti-jam capability to tactical warfighters, funded by the PTS program in PE 1206761SF. In the FY 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act, Congress added $442M for "Protected Wideband Satellite" to "procure a protected wideband satellite to provide resilient, jam resistant tactical communications to support warfighter needs." The United States Space Force (USSF) has interpreted the Congressional add as funding expected to cover the costs for a WGS-12 spacecraft clone of WGS-11, to include acquiring the same PTS anti-jam prototype payload as hosted on WGS-11. The current B2FO Acquisition Program Baseline (APB) allows for procurement of a WGS-12 the acquisition is a Firm Fixed Price (FFP) effort beginning in FY 2024 with integration of PTS in FY 2026 and launch in FY 2027. A mix of USSF and International Partner (IP) sources will cover launch, ground, and other Government costs. IPs receive constellation-wide WGS resources commensurate with their financial contributions to the WGS system. Investment from IPs to cooperatively enhance the system started in November 2007 through a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Australia to fund WGS space vehicle (SV)-6, launch and launch services. Five countries signed a new multilateral WGS MOU in CY 2012 and funded the procurement of WGS SV-9. In CY 2017, Amendment One to the WGS MOU leveraged additional funding for resiliency enhancements from two new IPs (Czech Republic and Norway). There is an International Agreement via the State Department regarding IP collaboration with WGS-11. In May 2022, nine countries signed Amendment Two to the multilateral MOU (adds Belgium and United Kingdom) to cover necessary ground upgrades and launch costs for WGS-11 not covered by the FY 2018 Congressional add, and extends the duration of the WGS MOU, as amended, through September 2039. Space Systems Command (SSC) provides program management, integration, and engineering expertise through FY 2026. Discussions for potential future partnerships regarding the WGS program continue in support of National Space Policy and improved operational efficiency. Funding for this exhibit is contained in PE 1203600SF.
Justification
Justification — Wideband Gapfiller Satellites(Space)
No FY 2026 funding is requested.
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 | FY25 Enacted | $10.0M |
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 | FY24 Actuals | FY25 Total | FY26 Base | FY26 Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Program Element | $0 | $10.0M | $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? →
Related awards
Award linkage is shown for 32 of 200 profiled companies — high- and medium-confidence USAspending matches, each row labeled; medium is the weaker evidence. why partial award coverage? →
Rows marked medium rest on evidence weaker than a program-level match, and of more than one kind. An account-based row, where the award drew from the same appropriation account as this program, is an association, not evidence that this program paid for the contract. Where the evidence is instead an FPDS acquisition-program tag or a subaward description, the program is established but which of its budget lines paid is not. An announcement link a recorded review did not leave standing is medium too. Only high rows rest on the contract naming this program with a recorded review upholding it and no recorded rejection or refutation applying.
| Recipient | PIID | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| THE BOEING COMPANY | FA880810C0001 | medium |
Contractor concentration
No concentration index is published for this line. This line's high-confidence links do not clear the floor for a published concentration index — at least 3 awards across 2 contractor families holding positive obligations, with positive net linked dollars. An index below that floor is a fact about the sample, not about the market. Whatever further links this line carries are medium-confidence, and what each medium evidence path does and does not establish is set out in the methodology. Both bases are in the downloadable warehouse.
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 Wideband Gapfiller Satellites(Space). 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 · Q1009
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 · O973
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 · O1025
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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