What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1502 of PE 0602750N. 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 developing tools for coordinating cyber and EW effects. - Continue developing machine learning for autonomous cyber defense approaches. - Continue efforts to exploit protocol weaknesses for naval applications. - Continue efforts in protocol dialecting for resilience and threat identification. - Continue collaborative algorithm and software development with stakeholders and partners. - Continue developing tools to analyze and understand resilience of data fusion methods. - Initiate development of a cost effective, highly performant, portable and power efficient AI supercomputer for use in marine environments.
The funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY2027 reflects the completion of a comprehensive, large-scale Modeling and simulation (M&S) environment.
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: - Developing tools for coordinating cyber and EW effects. - Machine learning for autonomous cyber defense approaches. - Efforts to exploit protocol weaknesses for naval applications. - Efforts in protocol dialecting for resilience and threat identification. - Collaborative algorithm and software development with stakeholders and partners. Complete: - Efforts to automate leveraging of over-permissioned protocol implementations. - Development of comprehensive, large-scale Modeling and simulation (M&S) environment for characterization of AI/ML techniques. Initiate: - Developing tools to analyze and understand resilience of data fusion methods.
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 | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 22.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.7 |
This activity is 17% of project 1502's FY2027 request and 4.5% of PE 0602750N'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.
10 activities in project 1502
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.