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Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC): $2.2B FY2027 request

The Air Force requests $2.2B for Survivable Airborne Operations Center (SAOC) in the FY2027 budget (RDT&E (R-1) line 51, Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force). That is +19% from $1.9B in FY2026 (FY2026 Total). FY2025: $1.6B (FY2025 Total).

Exhibit	RDT&E (R-1)
Appropriation	Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force 3600F
Budget activity	04 Advanced component development and prototypes
Program element	0604288F
Service or agency	Air Force (F)
Award category	Research and development in the awards database

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Budget book	Prior year	Current year	Request
FY2027 President's Budget	FY2025 Total $1.6B FY2025 Total	FY2026 Total $1.9B FY2026 Total	$2.2B
FY2026 President's Budget	FY2024 Actuals $717.6M FY2024 Actuals	FY2025 Total $1.6B FY2025 Total	$1.8B
FY2025 President's Budget	FY2023 Actuals $94.7M FY2023 Actuals	FY2024 PB Request with CR Amounts $888.8M FY2024 PB Request with CR Amounts	$1.7B

FY2027 exhibit columnsas printed, in dollars

Column	Amount	Quantity
FY2025 Actuals	$1.6B
FY2025 Total	$1.6B
FY2026 Discretionary Enacted	$1.8B
FY2026 PL 119-21 Spend Plan	$64.5M
FY2026 Total	$1.9B
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Award records that name this programtext match on award descriptions

Award	Company	Obligated FY2024+
FA283424CB002 Department of the Air Force / names SAOC	SIERRA NEVADA COMPANY, LLC	$3.4B
W9128F25F0059 Department of the Army / names SAOC	BURNS & MCDONNELL ENGINEERING COMPANY, INC.	$10.6M
W9128F25F0060 Department of the Army / names SAOC	BURNS & MCDONNELL ENGINEERING COMPANY, INC.	$8.3M
FA873524FB002 Department of the Air Force / names SAOC	THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY LLC	$6.5M
FA875126C0001 Department of the Air Force / names SAOC	SCALE AI, INC.	$5.1M

Matched by the program designator in the award description (SAOC), same service first plus the largest DoD-wide matches. Budget lines and contracts share no common key, so treat these as leads.

Timing

Budget books show money requested, enacted and spent by fiscal year before contracts show it. Enacted procurement money stays available to obligate for 3 years, RDT&E for 2 years and shipbuilding for 5, so a line funded this year turns into contract awards over the following 1 to 5 years. DoD contract actions then publish on USAspending about 90 days after signing (DFARS PGI 204.6), so the awards database trails these budget lines by months to years. Reprogramming actions move enacted money between accounts during the year, usually ahead of the awards it funds.

Source: Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), budget materials: Exhibit P-1 (procurement) and Exhibit R-1 (RDT&E) spreadsheets for the FY2025, FY2026 and FY2027 President's Budget requests. Amounts are in dollars (the exhibits print thousands). Totals add the rows the exhibits count toward totals and leave out memo (non-add) rows. Built Oct 16, 2026. Not investment advice.

Records on this page15Verified federal records

Largest value shown$3.4BAnnounced or obligated

Platform coverage$1.40TDoD & DHS obligations FY24-26

Expiring recompetes300$126.8B ending by Jun 2028

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