What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project RA of PE 0602718BR. 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.
- Modernize security posture of the DTRA Experimentation (Computing) Lab by implementing an automated, predictive system, utilizing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, detecting vulnerabilities and patching of operating systems, implementation of Defense Information Systems Agency Security Technical Implementation Guides and a centralized, automated, change control system preventing unauthorized changes. - Strengthen Zero Trust and Comply-To-Connect solutions with a strong emphasis on utilizing DevSecOps practices, modernizing IT infrastructure enabling access to secure, virtual, on-premises or Cloud based Software Development Environments while meeting DoW Cybersecurity criteria. - Provide high-performance scientific computing capability to WMD communities of interest. - Modernize and optimize high fidelity computer codes for existing and future high-performance computing architectures. - Facilitate technical exchanges with 14+ partner countries, to create and sustain formal Science and Technology development partnerships. - Facilitate technical exchanges with all geographic and functional Combatant Commands, military services, interagency partners, and joint staff to improve understanding of and refine CWMD research and development requirements.
The change from FY 2026 to FY 2027 aligns priority spending with the Secretary of War’s highest priorities to strengthen readiness, modernize capabilities, and sustain the force. This includes a one year increase in funds for a DTRA Experimentation Lab life cycle replacement of IT hardware.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
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.
- Facilitate technical exchanges with geographic and functional Combatant Commands, military services, and international and interagency partners to improve understanding of and refine CWMD research and development requirements. - Provide high-performance scientific computing capability to WMD communities of interest. - Utilize high-performance scientific computing to inform modernization and optimization of High Fidelity computer codes for existing and future high-performance computing architectures. - Utilize DTRA’s Experimental (computing) Lab secure, containerized Development, Security and Operations (DevSecOps) pipeline to modernize CWMD specific software and systems. - Provide partners access to a secure, virtual, System or Software Development Environment to test CWMD specific software. - Generate timely and actionable recommendations on countering and mitigating current and future WMD trends and challenges. - Conduct timely and relevant strategic studies and dialogues with international partners to facilitate year-upon-year learning on anticipated future challenges. - Refine strategic research projects to improve tangible outcomes and actionable recommendations for future activities to deter and counter WMD threats. - Provide in-depth research and analysis to anticipate, assess, and address key challenges related to strategic stability, strategic competition, multipolar escalation dynamics, limited WMD development and use, and other WMD threat trends by leveraging expert community resources. - Sponsor external research on strategic WMD and emerging threat topics and execution of bilateral, trilateral, and multilateral strategic dialogues with allies/partners.
- Expand and modernize container technology capabilities integrated with cybersecurity framework methodologies (Zero Trust) within the DTRA Experimentation (computing) Lab’s development, security, and operations (DevSecOps) pipeline. This will enable a more secure, agile, and efficient System Development Life Cycle coupled with DoD Enterprise Cloud Environment to create a hybrid on-premise/Cloud solution to meet DTRA mission needs and DoD software development mandates. - Increase security modernization of the DTRA Experimentation (computing) Lab’s unclassified and DTRA Experimentation (computing) Lab’s classified enclaves meeting Defense Information Systems Agency -mandated Risk Management Framework and Continuous Monitoring measurements for an Authority To Operate, to include robust Zero Trust and Comply-to-Connect solutions. - Provide ready access to the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program resources enabling researchers to rapidly perform detailed computer simulations integral to the successful execution of DTRA’s Research & Development Mission. - Enable performance engineers and DTRA application teams to collaborate, modernize and optimize the heavily used High Fidelity computer codes for existing and future High-Performance Computing architectures. - Provide advanced information technology engineering and component architecture development and integration. - Identify legacy code for application modernization for more productive provisioning of High-Performance Computing assets. - Facilitate technical exchanges with partners in 14+ countries and with all geographic and functional Combatant Commands to improve understanding of and refine requests to align developmental CWMD capabilities with critical warfighter needs. - Conduct technology demonstration events for at least two Combatant Commands to showcase capability solutions addressing critical theater CWMD requirements in cooperation with key U.S. allies and increase early joint force operational input to CWMD capability development. - Generate timely and actionable recommendations on countering and mitigating current and future WMD trends and challenges. - Conduct timely and relevant strategic studies and dialogues with international partners to facilitate year-upon-year learning on anticipated future challenges. - Refine strategic research projects to improve tangible outcomes and actionable recommendations for future activities to deter and counter WMD threats. - Provide in-depth research and analysis to anticipate, assess, and address key challenges related to strategic stability, strategic competition, multipolar escalation dynamics, limited WMD development and use, and other WMD threat trends by leveraging expert community resources. - Sponsor external research on strategic WMD and emerging threat topics and execution of bilateral, trilateral, and multilateral strategic dialogues with allies/partners.
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 | 22.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 9.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.9 |
This activity is 100% of project RA's FY2027 request and 7.6% of PE 0602718BR'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.
1 activity in project RA
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.