# Artificial Intelligence Operations and Effects Studies and Concepts

**R-2A activity** of project MSL-05 — ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND HUMAN-MACHINE SYMBIOSIS  
**Program element:** 0602025E — Making, Maintaining, Supply CHAIN AND Logistics  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 2  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-05/a9  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-05

> **NEW START.** $37.7M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $37.7M in FY2027, 27% of project MSL-05 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** 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.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 37.7 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project MSL-05

- [Artificial Intelligence Engineering and Assurance Studies and Concepts](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-05/a8) — FY2027 39.7
- [Securing Artificial Intelligence for Battlefield Effective Robustness (SABER)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-05/a0) — FY2027 16.4
- [Artificial Intelligence Quantified (AIQ)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-05/a1) — FY2027 13.4
- [Anticipatory and Adaptive Anti-money Laundering (A3ML)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602025E/MSL-05/a2) — FY2027 10.2
- Fostering Research and Growth in Emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI FORGE) — FY2027 6.6
- Kallisti — FY2027 6.0
- National Security Economic Theory (NASCENT) — FY2027 5.2
- Transfer from Imprecise and Abstract Models to Autonomous Technologies (TIAMAT) — FY2027 2.7
- Scientific Feasibility (SciFy) — FY2027 1.2
- Open Price Exploration for National security (OPEN) — FY2027 —
- Learning Introspective Control (LINC) — FY2027 —
- Assured Neuro Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (ANSR) — FY2027 —
- Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) — FY2027 —

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0602025E project MSL-05 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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