What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project RR 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.
- Provide maintenance, remediation, and test support on DTRA test beds, ensuring DTRA facilities, test articles, and capabilities, including secure communications, are maintained and available to support test and assessment activities in support of DoW, Intelligence Community, and other government CWMD R&D activities on DTRA test beds. - Modernize and support a CWMD test and evaluation capability that emulates fugitive emissions from WMD material production industrial processes. - Provide a national-level, threat-representative, WMD facility on the Nevada National Security Site that emulates industrial processes associated with WMD material production, to support developmental and operational test and evaluation of CWMD remote sensing technologies for 14 DoW, Intelligence Community, and other U.S. Government partners to enable the development of new CWMD capabilities and new CWMD Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures. - Field diagnostics and collect baseline facility data. - Sustain life safety equipment in support of DTRA Test and Evaluation and Assessment programs. - Support integration of toxin simulants and pharmaceutical-based agents into Test and Evaluation program. - Manage test assets and restore test structure at White Sands Missile Range to comply with Federal regulations and agreements with White Sands Missile Range. - Research potential geologically threat-representative sites to serve as Hardened and Deeply Buried Target (HDBT) defeat capability testbeds for future HDBT test and evaluation activities. Deliver studies on the efficacy of the potential sites to support future operational needs. - Support the expansion of the Technical Examination And Monitoring Site (TEAMS) on Kirtland AFB to support DTRA future arms control RDT&E and training requirements.
The change from FY 2026 to FY 2027 realigns lower priority spending with the Secretary of War’s highest priorities to strengthen readiness, modernize capabilities, and sustain the force. This includes a reduction in travel spending and a realignment of funds for higher Agency priorities.
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.
- Conduct remediation of a penetration test structure (DIVINE ALBATROS 2) at White Sands Missile Range in compliance with White Sands Missile Range agreements to remove targets no longer required. - Maintain 30-year White Sands Missile Range U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Golden Eagle permit for the DTRA Granite Site. - Sustain life safety equipment in support of Test, Evaluation, and Assessment Programs. - Research potential geologically threat-representative sites to serve as Hard and Deeply Buried Targets defeat capability testbeds for future Hard and Deeply Buried Targets test and evaluation activities. Deliver studies on the efficacy of the potential sites to support future operational needs. - Support the expansion of the Technical Examination and Assessment Monitoring Site on Kirtland Air Force Base to support future arms control RDT&E and training requirements. - Support integration of toxin simulants and pharmaceutical-based agents into Test and Evaluation program. - Provide certification of test personnel utilizing small, unmanned aircraft systems for CWMD testing and evaluation. - Provide maintenance, remediation, and test support on DTRA test beds. - Ensure that DTRA facilities, test articles, and capabilities, including secure communications on test beds, are maintained and available to support test and assessment activities. - Sustain Government Owned Equipment used for explosive disposal, explosive storage, batching concrete, conducting construction quality assurance, and other specialized functions. - Modernize a seismic diagnostics capability that provides critical support to air-delivered explosive weapon and facility vulnerability / protection test and evaluation activities. - Support airdrop weapon tests, providing real-time “high-order” detonation determination to allow safe re-entry of DTRA personnel to the test sites after a weapon drop from an aerial platform or static detonations. - Support open-air explosion tests at Kirtland Air Force Base while protecting residential areas around the base from blast effects damage. - Improve in-house far-field acoustic overpressure prediction tool and validate the prediction tool using the collected test data at Kirtland Air Force Base. - Provide program management, operational/logistics support, and explosives support consisting of test planning, fielding, management, safe execution and results analysis for up to 40 CWMD test and evaluation activities, including agent defeat phenomenology studies, structural response testing, and user assessments for new radiological and nuclear technologies.
- Improve efficiency and effectiveness of DTRA's RDT&E programs by procuring and guaranteeing availability of software tools that provide rapid analysis and modeling. - Purchase necessary test and life safety equipment in support of RDT&E programs. - Support test bed construction, geological surveys, and site remediation. - Provide calibration and life cycle management of safety and air sampling monitoring equipment. - Provide testing support for Agent Defeat Modeling and Simulation Baseline efforts to improve modeling capabilities. - Provide integration of fluorescence detection, chemical sensors, and radiological detectors into autonomous unmanned ground vehicle platforms. - Deliver four test campaigns across three novel test activities to refine collection of Tactics, Techniques and Procedures; validate new sensors; and broaden U.S. Government search, collection, and characterization capabilities. - Provide program management, operational/logistics support, and explosives support consisting of test planning, fielding, management, safe execution and results analysis for 100 blast tests. - Support operational and developmental testing at three fixed locations (Kirtland Air Force Base, White Sands Missile Range, and the Nevada National Security Site) and maintain an expeditionary capability to enable testing activities at multiple remote locations. - Provide explosives support including planning, operations, explosives development, procurement, explosives safety, operational use, fielding, firing, and disposal of explosives for operational and developmental testing. - Remediate a penetration test target at White Sands Missile Range to comply with White Sands Missile Range agreements to remove targets no longer required. - Clean-up and close open pits and remove abandoned cable hazards on the Small and Intermediate Test Beds on White Sands Missile Range. - Protect the local Albuquerque Community through improvements to the in-house seismic/acoustic laboratory, enabling safe conduct of explosive testing at Kirtland Air Force Base.
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 | 15.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 18.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 17.5 |
This activity is 100% of project RR's FY2027 request and 11% 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 RR
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.