Strategic Mission Planning & Execution System (SMPES)

Abstract

This budget line funds SMPES PE. Legacy PEs 0101324F ISPAN and 0301112F NPES and DSS have been consolidated into one SMPES PE 0304100F. The SMPES PE is comprised of two Budget, Program, and Activity Codes (BPAC): the SMPES software acquisition program and the National Leadership Command Capability (NLCC) Decision Support Service (DSS) software acquisition program. SMPES is an integrated enterprise solution software system providing the U.S. Air Force (USAF) and U.S. strategic nuclear forces' principal nuclear planning and analysis tools; including tools for consequence analysis and deliberate, adaptive, and crisis action planning for strategic deterrence. SMPES consolidates the following six independently managed programs into one system: 1) Mission Planning and Analysis System (MPAS); 2) Global Adaptive Planning Collaborative Information Environment (GAP CIE); 3) Decision Support Service (DSS) - Nuclear Command and Control (NC2) conference module component; 4) Nuclear Planning and Execution System Recapitalization (NPES Recap); 5) Force Status Readiness (FSR); and 6) Force Survivability Analysis and Management (FSAM). MPAS provides comprehensive global strike, coordinated space and missile defense, and information operations capabilities to meet strategic deterrent and national security objectives. MPAS consists of multiple sub-applications, working together to provide senior leaders with a strategic planning capability to U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) leadership and war planners. MPAS software, including ISPAN, is utilized to develop Joint Staff Level I - IV nuclear and conventional attack options for national and theater requirements, by conducting continuous agile software development for classified and unclassified networks. Located at USSTRATCOM, ISPAN supports the Unified Command Plan and Nuclear Posture Review. ISPAN Increment 5 (Inc 5) provided more distributed capability within the MPAS program. GAP-CIE is a web-based, collaborative, joint operation planning (JOP) application that enables combatant commanders and strategic leaders to rapidly coordinate on course of action development. The GAP-CIE planning environment provides deliberative planning, crisis action planning, decision support tools, and the Global Situational Awareness Tool (GSAT), supporting combatant commanders' visual of geospatial, temporal, and relational planning data. DSS develops software to improve situational awareness on the current situation, aggregate strategic-level information, and provide a common, resilient, and mobile visual display to directly support strategic leaders. NPES Recap develops software to facilitate NC2 adaptive planning and execution at fixed and mobile sites in real time. NPES Recap provides communication interfaces with software development, data management, software re-engineering, and operations to include requirements validation and training. FSR provides decision-makers and planners with real-time status of U.S. nuclear forces and stores information related to the USSTRATCOM NC2 mission enabling combatant commanders the ability to monitor the status of forces to include missiles, aircraft, submarines, and key personnel. FSAM enables the Warning System Controller (WSC) to monitor the status of all USSTRATCOM assigned forces to include but not limited to: 1) tracking the location of hostile threat aircraft and missile systems; 2) processing and displaying potential U.S. force vulnerabilities; and 3) providing force management/force survival (FM/FS) analysis tools to USSTRATCOM senior leaders. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon systems capability. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in PE 0605830F. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2025
• Source ID: 0304100F_7_3600_PB_2025
• Change Summary Explanation: The reduction is due to the programmed reduction to the DSS - NC2 Conference Module budget from FY24 to FY25.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Military Engineering.

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Space