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.
- Enable enhanced collaborative reasoning by integrated human-machine warfighting formations. - Automatically generate high-fidelity digital representations and behavioral models of adversary groups. - Develop AI for automated reverse engineering during active cyber warfare. - Develop AI that continually improves its model as it operates in the field. - Develop AI that accelerates targeted mineral exploration and secures supply chains. - Develop reinforcement learning agents that are sensitive to risk due to uncertainty. - Develop AI systems that autonomously reflect, self-assess, and adapt.
The FY 2027 increase reflects studies and concepts initiations including, but not limited to, applied research in developing AI for automated reverse engineering, advanced AI systems, and accelerated targeted mineral exploration.
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 | 37.7 |
This activity is 27% of project MSL-05's FY2027 request and 2.3% 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.