What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project AB7 of PE 0601104A. 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.
Advanced Energetics Center: Will conduct research on the inclusion of metal particles in energetic material formulations to enhance energy release; explore new techniques for optical and thermal characterization of post-detonation analysis; investigate additive manufacture methods to identify structure-function relationships in high-order materials. Adversarial-Resilient Cyber Effects for Decision Dominance: Will investigate cyber-physical network models with representations of cyber attacks and defense mechanisms for multi-domain missions and game-theoretic resilience measures based on these models; combine the power of Large Language Models (LLMs) with relevant repositories of unstructured cybersecurity reference data to investigate deployable detection sensors on demand; develop a dynamic learning system designed for adversarial environments which is a model library that evolves in tandem with the network's changes and counters resource limitations by streamlining the models within this library. Army Artificial Intelligence Innovation Institute (A2I2): Will incorporate Windows of Opportunity (WoO) information into a multi-agent command-and-control system; build a 3-D belief model to infer unobserved areas of the battlefield to enable shared predictive situational understanding; design an illustrative command-and-control use-case featuring a Large Pre-Trained Model application. Army Military Academic: Will conduct foundational research through annual, competitively awarded seedling efforts and develop mechanisms to build capabilities at Senior Military Colleges in areas aligned to Army priorities while providing recommendations for policy and strategy in operations, business, and doctrine domains for Army modernization. Distributive and Collaborative Intelligent Systems: Will apply adversarial team behaviors developed in simulation to physical platforms to contribute to experimentation and establish concept feasibility; assess experimental framework for applying formalisms and planning techniques that utilize advances in artificial intelligence (AI) foundation models for language to bridge multiple program-developed behaviors and AI models in a cohesive mission-planning framework for small teams of unmanned agents; apply autonomy research evaluation framework for understanding contributions of individual algorithms to a complex multi-step operation. Full Spectrum Structural Color (FSSC): Will explore self-assembly for novel architectures with dynamic response to external stimuli; study the creation of hierarchical material structures to identify key parameters and properties for structural color; validate computational models of complex composites through experimentation.
This is not a new start. FY 2027 funding increase reflects the consolidation of other ongoing efforts within this project from Distributed Collaborative Intelligent Systems Technology CTA, Army Artificial Intelligence Innovation Institute (A2I2), Army Advanced Energetics Center, Fundamentals for Quantum Technologies, and Army Military Academic CRA within this Project as well as Program Element (PE) 0601121A (Cyber Collaborative Research Alliance) / Project CB5 (Cyber Collaborative Research Alliance) to support the creation of Army Collaborative Research and Technology Alliances. Funding increase reflects additional research in hierarchical material structures.
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 | 29.7 |
This activity is 62% of project AB7's FY2027 request and 55% of PE 0601104A'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.
22 activities in project AB7
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.