What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project MSL-05 of PE 0602025E. 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.
- Refine AI risk analysis techniques and tools based on the results of initial operational exercises and red team experiences. - Quantify the effectiveness of alternative robustness enhancements and TTPs across diverse use cases. - Conduct high-fidelity operational and red team exercises targeted to high-priority DoW AI-robustness use cases, and capture results in AI-robustness TTPs. - Explore the combined AI-cyber-physical attack and counter-measure spaces to anticipate and prepare for sophisticated adversarial AI challenges.
The FY 2027 increase reflects continued development of AI risk analysis techniques and tools and expanded efforts to evaluate the technologies on diverse DoW use cases.
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.
- Formulate a comprehensive approach to adversarial AI to serve as the basis for the development of risk analysis and robustness enhancement of AI-enabled systems. - Create techniques and tools for use by developers and red teams to perform risk analysis of AI-enabled systems during development and operations. - Collaborate with the Joint Force on a series of high-fidelity operational exercises to iteratively assess and red team AI-enabled military systems in battlefield settings, to demonstrate utility of AI robustness techniques across multiple use cases, and to formulate AI robustness TTPs.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 13.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 16.4 |
This activity is 12% of project MSL-05's FY2027 request and 1.0% of PE 0602025E'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 MSL-05
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.