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Fiscal Receipts

Joint Tactical Ground Stations

Air ForceProcurementReconciledBLIJTAGS0
What it is
Joint Tactical Ground Stations (JTAGS0) is an Air Force procurement line funded in the Procurement, Space Force account.
What changed
No FY25→26 comparison — endpoints unavailable or on different bases.
Who gets it
No company is linked to this line. Award records do not carry the program element, so the crosswalk is silent here — why.

Budget figures

FY24 Actuals
$580.0KP-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25 Enacted
$0J-book detail · PB2026
FY26 Request
$0J-book detail · PB2026
FY25→26 Change
No comparison: endpoints unavailable or on different bases

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 FY2024. 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.

Data coverage

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

The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.
The program's 3 summary figures for FY24 to FY26, plotted in fiscal-year order: this line ends lower than it starts. The points are the summary cards above, not a separate derivation; the table beside the chart carries each figure with its own citation.FY24: $580.0KFY25: $0FY26: $0FY24FY25FY26
Budget trajectory: one row per fiscal year, carrying the summary figure the sparkline plots. Every figure opens its own citation.
Fiscal yearAmount
FY24$580.0KP-1 TOA · PB2026
FY25$0J-book detail · 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

3 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2022–FY2024): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span, and 1 year is a break in the line rather than a low value: an edition the program is absent from, never interpolated. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.
3 fiscal years of this program as published (FY2022–FY2024): a line through the actuals (filled dots), with the enacted (hollow circles) and request (diamonds) markers each edition reported. Read it for direction, not for precision — this program's actuals line rises across the span, and 1 year is a break in the line rather than a low value: an edition the program is absent from, never interpolated. The grid below is the same data as text, one cited figure per cell.FY2022 actuals — PB2024 editionFY2024 actuals — PB2026 editionFY2023 enacted — PB2024 editionFY2024 enacted — PB2025 editionFY2024 request — PB2024 editionFY22FY23FY24

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.

Decade series values by fiscal year and President's Budget edition: one row per series (actuals, enacted, request), one column per fiscal year. Every figure opens its own citation.
SeriesFY22FY23FY24
Actuals$0–$580.0K
Enacted–$0$580.0K
Request––$580.0K

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 — Joint Tactical Ground Stations

The Joint Tactical Ground Station (JTAGS) disseminates near real time warning, alerting, and cueing information on ballistic missile launches and other tactical events of interest throughout the theater using existing communication networks, providing critical support to Combatant Commanders in their Areas of Responsibility (AOR). JTAGS, first fielded in 1997, has four outside the contiguous United States (OCONUS) deployed JTAGS units, which are deployed in three theaters (Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), Central Command (CENTCOM), European Command (EUCOM)). A fifth contiguous United States (CONUS) system is used as an institutional trainer though is available as a deployable asset. Obsolescence issues coupled with the requirement to be compatible with the Air Force's newer satellites Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) and their improved warning accuracy and timeliness, resulted in the production/fielding of the JTAGS Block II Pre-Planned Product Improvement (P3I) system. The JTAGS Approved Acquisition Objective (AAO) is five systems. Four OCONUS deployed JTAGS units, which are deployed in three theaters (United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM), United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), United States European Command (USEUCOM)), constitute Department of Defense (DoD's) in-theater system providing space-based missile warning. The fifth CONUS system is used as an institutional trainer but is available as a deployable asset. JTAGS is designated as the in-theater element of the United States Strategic Command's Theater Event System (TES), supporting all Theater Missile Defense pillars, affording the shortest sensor-to-shooter connectivity. Funding for this exhibit contained in PE 1208053SF.

Justification

Justification — Joint Tactical Ground Stations

No FY 2026 funding requested.

Budget line items(workbook-cited)

P-1/R-1 workbook Total Obligation Authority basis (USD thousands) · PB2026.

Exhibit P-1

AccountOrgTypeAmount
Procurement, Space ForceFFY24 Actuals$580.0K

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.

ProjectFY24 ActualsFY25 TotalFY26 BaseFY26 Request
Program Element$580.0K$0$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 Joint Tactical Ground Stations. 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

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.