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USSOCOM and its acquisition executive

Validate SOF requirements, propose resources and develop/acquire special-operations-peculiar equipment, materiel, supplies and services; coordinate supporting military departments.

USSOCOM has a distinctive service-like acquisition role for special-operations-peculiar equipment, alongside its combatant-command mission. SOF Acquisition, Technology and Logistics connects special-operations needs to development, procurement and sustainment.

Budget & program scale

Public funding documented

FY2027 O&M request: $10.891 billion, plus separately budgeted acquisition accounts

  • Budget requestFY2027

    The O&M justification requests $10.891050B discretionary and no mandatory O&M funding for FY2027. This is operations and maintenance, not the entire command resource total.

    Source: USSOCOM FY2027 O&M budget justification, pages 1–4

  • Enacted budget and spend planFY2026

    The same book shows FY2026 enacted O&M of $9.670540B discretionary plus $1.078680B in mandatory spend-plan funding, $10.749220B combined.

    Source: USSOCOM FY2027 O&M budget justification, pages 1–4

  • Funding scopeProgram structure

    Major Force Program 11 resources support SOF-peculiar development, acquisition and sustainment. Procurement, RDT&E and military-construction accounts are separate from the O&M amount above.

    Source: USSOCOM — Acquisition Authority

How to engage

Mission & responsibilities

Authority & organization

Sources reviewed

Source notes
  • Do not label the O&M request as USSOCOM's entire budget; military personnel are reported in the military-service estimates and acquisition accounts are published separately.
  • The current Engage SOF page supersedes older TILO instructions.
Institutional limits

Not a general model granting identical acquisition powers to every combatant command; scope remains SOF-peculiar and subject to statutory supervision.

Institutional sources