RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Manpower, Personnel and Training Advanced Technology

PE 0603007A·U.S. Army·Approp. 2040 — RDT&E·BA3 — Advanced Technology Development
FY2027 Request
$11.1M
Army · RDT&E
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U.S. Army funding falls 18% to a $11.1M request in FY2027, sustained across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators funded it in full.

FY2027 Request
$11.1M
▼ 18% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$13.6M
▼ 7.7% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$14.7M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Army is requesting $11.1M for Manpower, Personnel and Training Advanced Technology under RDT&E program element 0603007A, down 18% from FY2026.

Funding trajectory

Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031

Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.

014.7FY25ACTUAL13.6FY26ENACTED11.1FY27REQUEST14.9FY2815.0FY2915.2FY3015.3FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual14.7
FY2026Enacted13.6
FY2027Request11.1
FY2028Outyear14.9
FY2029Outyear15.0
FY2030Outyear15.2
FY2031Outyear15.3
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 3 — Advanced Technology Development.

Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Current
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Later
Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element

1 project rolls up into PE 0603007A

Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year. This PE moves -18% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project 792

Personnel Performance & Training

$11.1MFY2027 request ▼ 18%
FY2025 actual$14.7M
FY2026 enacted$13.6M
FY2027 request$11.1M

This project matures and demonstrates applied behavioral and social science technologies that enhance the Soldier Lifecycle (e.g., selection, assignment, training, leader development) and team effectiveness. These technologies provide advanced personnel measures that more fully assess potential and predict performance, behavior, attitudes, and resilience. These technologies also provide innovative and effective talent management methods to optimize individual and team performance to ensure the Army can meet mission requirements in uncertain and complex environments. This project demonstrates new selection measures, assignment methods, and performance metrics for individuals and units, and assesses innovative leader development and learning methods. Research will result in effective non-materiel solutions to help the Army adjust to changes in force size and structure, a variety of mission demands and contexts, challenges in human relations, and budgetary constraints. Work is performed by the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI).

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
FY2025 actual$14.7M
FY2026 enacted$13.6M
FY2027 request$11.1M

Will conduct research to advance prototype assessments of officer and enlisted Soldiers for enhanced Talent Management; advance analytic and modeling techniques to provide more efficient mean of developing assessments; develop and validate competency growth models, assessments, and interventions to enhance complex leader competencies…

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Congressional action

Congressional marks

Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.

RequestPresident's Budget
$11.1M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$11.1M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$11.1M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$11.1M full · +$0
unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

This Program Element (PE) matures and validates applied behavioral and social science technologies that enhance the Soldier Lifecycle (e.g., selection, assignment, training, leader development) and human relations (e.g. unit cohesion). These technologies provide advanced personnel measures that more fully assess potential and predict performance, behavior, attitudes, and resilience. These technologies also provide innovative and effective Talent Management methods to optimize individual and team performance to ensure the Army can meet mission requirements in uncertain and complex environments.

Project 792 — Personnel Performance & Training
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Sources
FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0603007A (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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