# Talent Assessment and Development

**R-2A activity** of project 790 — Personnel Performance & Training Technology  
**Program element:** 0602785A — Manpower/Personnel/Training Technology  
**Component:** U.S. Army · **Budget Activity:** 2  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602785A/790/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0602785A

## Summary

This activity requests $14.3M in FY2027, 100% of project 790, down 17% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2025–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** Will conduct research to develop proof-of-concept training and development methods for leadership, teams, and multiteam systems; identify methods for increasing training throughput and effectiveness; initiate development of assessments and interventions to enhance command and control (C2) decision advantage in the future operating environment; develop diagnostic team assessments; compose Soldier attribute composition frameworks; identify critical knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics for the current and future operating environment; develop artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support talent management initiatives.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** FY 2027 funding decrease due to development and validation of fewer training methods for leadership and developmental interventions for enhanced command and control.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Will evaluate in-service assessments to improve enlisted personnel assignment; will conduct research to identify leader attributes needed for 2040; will continue to develop predictive models of career trajectories and retention; will develop methods for automatically generating items for assessments of multiple talent attributes; will progress leader competency assessments; will assess composition frameworks for team-based personnel assignment; will develop unobtrusive measures for small unit performance.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** Will develop proof-of-concept in-service assessments to improve enlisted personnel assignment; will develop predictive models of career trajectories and retention; will design innovative methods to generate job analysis content; will develop leader competency assessments for junior officers and senior NCOs; will analyze composition frameworks for team-based personnel assignment; will develop measures for small unit performance.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 19.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 17.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.3 |

> 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.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0602785A project 790 (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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