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USD(Comptroller) and component comptrollers

Prepare and execute budgets, oversee fiscal/accounting policy, identify appropriation availability, and assemble transfer/reprogramming requests. Component account owners connect the chosen authority to lawful funds.

Comptrollers formulate, justify, monitor and execute budgets and provide financial policy and analysis. This node includes departmental and component financial-management roles, not one common funding application office.

Budget & program scale

Parent budget

Central Comptroller FY2026: $123.319M mission + $47.247M civilian pay

Central office budget contextFY2026 enacted
The central Comptroller office’s enacted mission line is $123.319 million, with $47.247 million separately reported for civilian pay. These are headquarters office-support amounts, not the budgets of all component comptrollers or an applicant award pool.
Source: FY2027 OSW O&M budget justification, component FY2026 enacted mission/pay lines
Budget requestFY2027
The FY2027 Department of War request totals $1.450 trillion: $1.100 trillion discretionary and $350 billion mandatory. The mandatory proposal assumes subsequent reconciliation legislation; this is a request, not enacted budget authority.
Source: FY2027 Department of War Budget Request Overview, department toplines
Enacted department contextFY2026
The overview reports FY2026 enacted department resources of approximately $1.009 trillion, including the spend plan for mandatory funding. This is department-wide context, not an office operating budget or a discretionary award pool.
Source: FY2027 Department of War Budget Request Overview, department toplines

How to engage

Public budget information
Budget materials and account justifications
Select the component and account. Request documents, enacted comparisons and program exhibits explain scope; they are not an intake for funding proposals.
Source: Comptroller — FY2027 budget materials
Institutional routing
Program/Budget responsibilities
For an existing government requirement, identify the responsible component budget office and program sponsor. The central functional statement describes roles, not an applicant submission portal.
Source: Comptroller — Program/Budget functional statement

Mission & responsibilities

The central Program/Budget organization manages budget review, formulation, presentation and execution; oversees PPBE; monitors enacted budgets; and advises senior leaders.
Source: Comptroller — Program/Budget functional statement
The Deputy CFO establishes accounting and finance policy and maintains financial-management regulations consistent with applicable fiscal requirements.
Source: Comptroller — Deputy CFO functional statement

Authority & organization

The public functional statement documents the central Comptroller organization’s institutional budget responsibilities; component comptrollers operate within their own assignments and accounts.
Source: Comptroller — Program/Budget functional statement
Financial policy and accounting controls are distinct from the substantive authority and official needed to sign a particular contract, grant, loan or other agreement.
Source: Comptroller — Deputy CFO functional statement

Institutional limits

Cannot treat authorization ceilings as appropriations or move funds merely by interoffice agreement.

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Research, innovation and experimentation · 8 records

ACQ-01 · Research & experimentation

Conduct and purchase defense-relevant research and development

Conduct basic, applied and advanced research and development internally, through military departments, by contract, or by agreement with another federal agency.

What this is not / limit: Not authority to fund a project with no potential defense interest.

Executing role: DARPA Contracts Management Office or Service contracting/grants/agreements office; Performing laboratory or external research performer

Contracts & purchases

Legal basisSources linked

RequirementsGates recorded

Public fundingRules recorded

Assigned rolesRoles recorded

EngagementUse documented

USD(Comptroller) and component comptrollers

Central Comptroller FY2026: $123.319M mission + $47.247M civilian pay

How to engage

Mission & responsibilities

Authority & organization

Related instruments by family

Program-specific research for this actor

INT-34 · Consolidate and transfer Defense intelligence appropriations into execution accounts

FIN-02 · Credit authorized reimbursements to DoD accounts

FIN-04 · Transfer funds under a specific annual transfer authority

Institutional sources