FY2026 defense budget request: $384B procurement and RDT&E
DoD requests $384B for FY2026 in this budget book: $205B in procurement across 897 P-1 lines and $179B in RDT&E across 1,125 R-1 lines, +22% from $316B in FY2025 (FY2025 Enacted).
| Procurement (P-1) | $205B FY2026 request · $174B FY2025 · $205B FY2024 |
|---|---|
| RDT&E (R-1) | $179B FY2026 request · $141B FY2025 · $150B FY2024 |
| FY2026 split | $295B discretionary · $89.0B mandatory |
| Columns used | FY2024 Actuals · FY2025 Enacted · FY2026 Total |
| Source files | P-1 spreadsheet · R-1 spreadsheet |
| Budget line | FY2024 prior | FY2025 current | FY2026 request | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Defense Laboratories R&D Projects Space Force · Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force · 1202212SF | FY2024 $17.5M | FY2025 n/a | n/a | vs FY2025 |
| Combat Survivor Evader Locator Air Force · Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force · 1203176F | FY2024 n/a | FY2025 $1.1M | n/a | vs FY2025 |
| Ballistic Missile Defense Radars Space Force · Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force · 1203873SF | FY2024 $30.9M | FY2025 $12.0M | n/a | vs FY2025 |
| Small Business Innovation Research Space Force · Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force · 1205502SF | FY2024 $455.4M | FY2025 n/a | n/a | vs FY2025 |
| Polar MILSATCOM (SPACE) Space Force · Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force · 1206432SF | FY2024 $74.7M | FY2025 n/a | n/a | vs FY2025 |
| Enterprise Ground Services Space Force · Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Space Force · 1206770SF | FY2024 $149.8M | FY2025 n/a | n/a | vs FY2025 |
| Classified Program USD(P) Defense-wide · Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide · 0605128D8Z | FY2024 $167.0M | FY2025 $180.9M | n/a | vs FY2025 |
Army · Navy · Marine Corps · Air Force · Space Force · Defense-wide
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 8, 2026. Not investment advice.
Terminal: budget lines matched to contracts and companies, with alerts when funding moves.
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