What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 624920 of PE 0602204F. 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.
- Continue to enhance modeling, simulation, and assessment capabilities to analyze, develop, and refine cognitive concepts to defeat threat kill webs. - Continue to enhance and upgrade hardware in the loop assessment capabilities to provide relevant complex electromagnetic spectrum back ground environments to ensure successful operation of advanced concepts (e.g. cognitive). - Complete radio frequency electromagnetic warfare technologies that provided capabilities against adversary emitters in highly dense, highly adaptive complex electromagnetic operating environment. - Complete advanced multi-domain offensive electronic warfare capabilities that deny adversaries use of positioning, navigation, and timing systems while maintaining blue force maneuverability and survivability. - Commence the demonstration of multi-spectrum capabilities (integrated radio frequency and electro-optical) to defeat threats with open architecture to ensure rapid technology transition.
FY 2027 decreased compared to FY 2026 by $0.302 million due to programmatic adjustments to the DAF Science and Technology portfolio. This increase reflects a strategic realignment to optimize core research areas and improve resource efficiency.
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, assess, and mature radio frequency electromagnetic warfare technologies that provide capabilities against adversary emitters to promote increased airman survivability in a highly dense, highly adaptive complex electromagnetic operating environment. - Continue development and maturation of multi-spectrum capabilities (integrated radio frequency and electro-optical) to defeat threats utilizing a common open architecture to ensure rapid transition to multiple advanced technology development programs. - Continue to enhance and upgrade hardware in the loop assessment capabilities to provide relevant, complex electromagnetic spectrum background environments to ensure successful operation of advanced concepts. - Continue and advance modeling, simulation, and assessment capabilities to analyze, develop, and refine concepts to defeat threat kill webs. - Commence development of algorithms and techniques that degrade adversary common operating picture to defeat longer-range threats; synchronize effects across multiple platforms to ensure coordinated attacks; advance low cost, size, weight and power technologies to reduce cost and provide non-kinetic mass; investigate countering of adversary targeting and situational awareness capabilities.
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 | 20.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 20.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 19.8 |
This activity is 55% of project 624920's FY2027 request and 12% of PE 0602204F'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.
3 activities in project 624920
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.