What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 001 of PE 0205401JCA. This is the budget justification's own description of work that has not happened yet — the one thing no other level of the budget carries.
JIATF 401 will pursue the acceleration of a layered defeat portfolio, including options to ensure the protection of critical assets across diverse operational environments. Our approach is system-agnostic, focused on identifying and integrating the most effective capabilities to meet operational needs by addressing each stage of the kill chain, rather than committing to specific platforms or vendors. To maintain tactical overmatch against evolving threats, FY 2027 funding will focus on the following areas: Rapid Development & Acceleration – Supports the rapid development of C-sUAS defeat options to ensure protection across diverse operational environments. Advanced Tech Assessments - Supports the rapid operational assessment of commercial technologies and the "lab-to-field" pipeline. Critical for testing C-sUAS systems against emerging threats prior to procurement. Tactical C2 & Architecture Integration - Supports the software development and systems engineering required to establish common air domain awareness. Supports the system-agnostic integration of advanced decision aids. Common Testing, Demonstrations & Joint Exercises - Supports DoW-wide C-sUAS exercises, testing, and demonstrations of emerging prototypes, integration of sensors, common tactical C2, and effectors to ensure seamless, accelerated reaction times across the entire kill chain. Leverages commercially available, system-agnostic technologies and advanced decision aids to validate mission-ready capabilities against emerging threats. Supports executing large-scale exercises to ensure C-sUAS solutions are fully interoperable across DoW components and established common air domain architectures. Funds will be executed on JIATF 401 priorities and emerging trends.
Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects the additional resourcing by the DoW to support the establishment of the JIATF 401.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 580.3 |
This activity is 100% of project 001's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0205401JCA's. In the request year the activities under a project sum to it exactly; in the current year they under-cover it in about 9% of cases, so an activity's delta can legitimately exceed its parent's and the two must not be compared row to row.
1 activity in project 001
Every R-2A line of this project, largest FY2027 request first. Linked where the activity has enough of its own narrative to carry a page; the rest are shown in full on the program-element page.