What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 675898 of PE 0305600F. 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.
International Intelligence Technology and Architectures (IITA) investment in RDT&E ceases support in development to oversee, manage, and provide the United States (US) component of the multi-national Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation Systems (BICES) with a collaborative environment and intelligence sharing enterprise required for processing and disseminating critical intelligence information between and among US, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), allied and coalition forces. Resources in FY27 support classified activities and are provided on a higher network.
Full decrease of investment in RDT&E ceasing support in development to oversee, manage, and provide the United States (US) component of the multi-national Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation Systems (BICES) with a collaborative environment and intelligence sharing enterprise required for processing and disseminating critical intelligence information between and among US, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), allied and coalition forces. + $62M resources to support classified activities provided on a higher network.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue to Develop US BICES-X capabilities including further integration of TNE into the MPE, and development and testing of coalition ISR capabilities. These efforts will enable the modernization and transformation of the US BICES/BICES-X worldwide enterprise to enable instantiation or interconnection of any partner network to support any operation.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 17.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 18.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 62.0 |
This activity is 100% of project 675898's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0305600F'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 675898
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.