The FY2027 President's Budget requests — for International Rail (IRAIL), within Homeland Security's Procurement, Construction, and Improvements account.
FY2025–FY2026
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $1.3M |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | $1.3M |
The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure — the rate a continuing resolution funds at, not an enacted appropriation. The two are different numbers and are not interchangeable. Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Homeland Security discretionary budget authority
From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Homeland Security's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
…• International Rail (IRAIL): The FY 2027 Budget includes $1.3M to support site construction, system installation, and integration verification activities at Brownsville, Texas and Portal, North Dakota sites. The IRAIL program will acquire and deploy two fixed radiation detection equipment configured for the freight rail environment and integrate them with CBP's High Energy Rail Radiography system for side-by-side operation. These efforts will enable CBP to detect and identify nuclear or other radioactive materials entering the United States via freight rail at active POEs, while also recapitalizing aging rail radiography systems and conducting system performance evaluations to strengthen border
Extracted from 26 0403 ocfo fy27 budget customs and border protection, p. 267. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased. This is a different document from the one the figures above were read off — the agency prints this line's dollars in a summary table and its justification elsewhere.
Contracts funded by this line
1 linked contract. These are obligations — lifetime awarded money — and they are not comparable to the request above and are never added to it. No total is shown: an award linked to several lines is counted in full on each, so the sum would not be a fact.
| Contract | Vendor | Confidence | Obligated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 70B03C22F00001244 last action FY2024 | SMITHS DETECTION INC. | Medium confidence | $1.6M |
Confidence mix · 1 medium
Linked contracts are a floor, not a census. Coverage is bounded by how distinctively a program is named and, for performer links, to RDT&E and Procurement — O&M and military construction publish no performers. Budget figures are FY2027 request dollars; contract figures are obligations. The two measure different things and must never be summed together.
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