Auctioned Spectrum Relocation Fund

Auctioned Spectrum Relocation Fund, Program Element (PE) 0303267F, supports the Department of the Air Force's spectrum relocation and sharing activities. The program appears in the Air Force's Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) appropriation under Budget Activity 5, System Development and Demonstration (SDD). The budget justification states that this classification applies because the effort has passed Milestone B approval and is conducting engineering and manufacturing development tasks intended to meet validated requirements before full-rate production.

Project 658062: Auctioned Spectrum Relocation Fund is the sole project identified within the program element. Its stated purpose is to fund spectrum relocation and sharing; the acquisition strategy repeats that purpose. The budget exhibits do not divide the project into separate technical efforts or identify particular systems or spectrum bands. The activity identified in the schedule is support for spectrum relocation.

The project received funding in FY 2025 and was completed that year, according to the mission description. The change summary attributes the FY 2025 funding to a transfer from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during the execution year, recorded as a reprogramming relative to the previous President's Budget. It does not attribute the change to a congressional addition, directed transfer, or reduction. No prior-year funding is shown.

The project cost analysis places the FY 2025 funding in product development. It identifies a cost-plus-award-fee contract method for that entry, while leaving the performing activity and location unspecified. A separate cost-category entry is labeled "Support spectrum relocation and sharing activities," but shows no funding in the years presented. These entries describe the accounting and contracting context without specifying particular equipment, deliverables, or performers.

For FY 2026, the budget lists no funding and gives no planned activities. The schedule nevertheless depicts "Support spectrum relocation activities" as an event beginning in the first quarter of FY 2025 and ending in the fourth quarter of FY 2027. That schedule provides a time span for the event, while the narrative separately states that Project 658062 was completed in FY 2025; it does not describe a new FY 2026 funding requirement.

For the requested FY 2027 budget, the Air Force requests no base or overseas-contingency-operations funding for the program element. The planned-programs exhibit marks FY 2027 plans as not applicable, and it provides no FY 2026-to-FY 2027 increase or decrease explanation. The budget tables also show no funding in FY 2028 through FY 2031. Thus, although the schedule extends into FY 2027, the request does not present a distinct FY 2027 activity or funding justification.

No other program funding is identified in the budget item. Taken together, the exhibits present this as an FY 2025-funded Air Force RDT&E effort for spectrum relocation and sharing, with its sole project reported complete in that year. The schedule's later endpoint and the cost analysis's continuing cost fields do not add a stated follow-on objective or a requested-year procurement or research activity.