What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2270 of PE 0206313M. 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.
-Initiate development & research activities for a capability solution to fulfill Mounted Systems - Variant 2. -Initiate development of Platform Integration Kits for Mounted Systems - Variant 2. -Initiate development and research activities for a Military Global Positioning System User Equipment Increment 2 Handheld System. -Initiate development activities in coordination with the Army in their engineering and developmental testing efforts for additional Dismounted Systems - Variant 1 capabilities. -Initiate development activities in coordination with the Army including engineering and developmental testing efforts to augment and enhance Mounted Systems - Variant 1 capabilities. -Initiate development activities for Mounted Systems - Variant 1 ancillary components to provide situational awareness / real-time status of the PNT operational picture. -Initiate the development of test capabilities to forge a dynamic Modeling and Simulation environment that functions as a digital twin of the battlespace, enabling the rapid, data-driven analysis of PNT system performance across a spectrum of contested scenarios. -Initiate the development of the formalized reference architecture to establish a standardized, resilient, and adaptable framework for all current and future PNT systems. -Initiate the development of a comprehensive PNT Solutions Architecture to transition from high-level strategic reference architecture to a practical, implementation-focused blueprint for modernizing our PNT capabilities. -Initiate development activities for PNT hardware and software components that implement Modular Open System Design approaches to empower the rapid, cost-effective replacement and upgrade of individual components (such as GPS receivers, inertial measurement units, or anti-jam antennas) without requiring a complete system redesign. -Initiate development of the systems required to migrate to a Model Based System Engineering approach to enable data-driven, and agile approaches for design, development, and sustainment of PNT systems. -Initiate development of the hardware and software (antenna simulator evaluation hardware, and models) required to execute modeling and simulation of PNT technologies. -Initiate a comprehensive, service-wide effort to characterize all USMC Inertial Navigation Systems to assess the ability to provide accurate position and velocity data, model the performance, and characterize interoperability with legacy clients/consumers and systems. -Continue the development and validation of a diverse portfolio of alternative navigation solutions to architect a multi-layered Primary Alternate Contingent & Emergency plan, enabling uninterrupted even when GPS is unavailable or untrustworthy. -Continue development of enhanced PNT capabilities including Anti-Jam/Anti-Spoof antennas, Alternative Navigation sources, and non-GPS capabilities to support assured PNT in contested environments. -Complete activities supporting the Army including product development of Mounted Variant 1 Capability (MAPS GEN II) to ensure EMI compliance. -Complete development of a transcoder to enable MAPS GEN II integration and M-Code interoperability with legacy client systems.
The increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 supports upgrading resource intensive evaluation methods to a modeling & simulation environment that adequately replicate the complex, multi-domain threats posed by near-peer adversaries. This funding establishes a "digital twin" of the battlespace, allowing for rapid, data-driven analysis of PNT system performance in scenarios that are too costly or dangerous to test live. This directly supports the DoW's directive to accelerate innovation. This funding also supports product development of material solutions to modernize the fielded DAGR Remote Antenna to an anti-jam anti-spoof capability as well as the changes necessary to install on client/consumer systems. The legacy DAGR antenna is ineffective and an anti-jam/anti-spoof antenna solution is needed to provide a critical, near-term capability enhancement to fielded systems. Additionally the increase reflects the evaluation of Military Global Positioning System User Equipment Increment 2 technologies.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
-Initiated development of enhanced PNT capabilities including Anti-Jam/Anti-Spoof antennas, Alternative Navigation sources, and non-GPS capabilities to support assured PNT in contested environments. -Continued activities supporting the Army in their product development of Mounted Variant 1 Capability (MAPS GEN II) to ensure EMI compliance. -Continued development in a transcoder to enable MAPS GEN II integration and M-Code interoperability with legacy client systems.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 4.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 2.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 44.0 |
This activity is 38% of project 2270's FY2027 request and 16% of PE 0206313M'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.
14 activities in project 2270
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 project page.