Section 04 · Employment
How a slice of the buy actually sorties. These are employment packages, not the inventory. Costs are the tails and rounds you push forward, not the factory.
$840.0M
A Guam- and expeditionary-strip-based package that puts range, decoys, and dual-role wingmen in front of F-22/F-35/F-47 while Cistern takes tanking off the fighters.
Vanguard sweeps and escorts. Shade saturates the IADS. Harrier holds the picture. Cistern offloads at 500+ nm. Nereid-S pickets the first island chain with Lance-L.
$450.9M
USAFE vignette: CCAs for IAMD against one-way attack drones and cruise missiles, and a counter-IADS package if NATO territory is crossed.
Aegis batteries on the forward line. Vanguard on combat air patrol as uncrewed IAMD. Shade and Lance-T for the counter-IADS raid. Kestrel to the brigades.
$279.6M
A surface-undersea kill web that treats the first island chain or a contested strait as a magazine, not a radar picket.
Nereid-S hunters with Lance/Shade cells. Nereid-U maps and mines. Harrier cues. Cistern gateways. No destroyer required in the minefield.
$39.0M
Transformation in Contact made real: the brigade owns its eyes, darts, decoys, and C-UAS magazine instead of waiting on a theater collection deck.
Every company: Kestrel + Lance-S. Battalion: Lance-T + Shade. Brigade: Aegis battery and a Harrier slice.
$103.3M
The thousands of one-way attackers the Air Force Secretary said SOF will employ — cued by organic ISR, covered by expendable EA, recoverable if the raid aborts.
Lance-L from air or USV. Shade opens the hole. Kestrel on the objective. Vanguard as the expensive insurance policy, not the first round.