Project DA3
$3.3MFY2027 request ▼ 92%Army Advanced Innovation
FY2025 actual$4.3M
FY2026 enacted$43.1M
FY2027 request$3.3M
FY2027 Request
$3.3M
▼ 92% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$44.2M
▲ 214% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$14.1M
Prior year
Roll-up of 2 projects. Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it.
For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Army is requesting $3.3M for Army Agile Innovation and Demonstration under RDT&E program element 0603025A, down 92% from FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 14.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 44.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 3.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 4.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 4.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 4.9 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 5.1 |
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
2 projects roll up into PE 0603025A
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 -92% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.
Project CK8
—FY2027 request ▼ 100%Advanced Technology Development and Convergence
FY2025 actual$9.7M
FY2026 enacted$1.0M
FY2027 request—
Congressional action
Congressional marks
Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.
RequestPresident's Budget
$3.3M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$5.8M +$2.5M · +75%
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$3.3M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$95.8M +$92.5M · +2782%
▲ $92.5M chamber gap — 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 PE funds the Army's goal of accelerating innovative solutions to achieve future force modernization. The Army is using strategic and "non-traditional" partnerships and working with traditional vendors in novel ways to respond at the speed of innovation to accelerate the development of cutting-edge technology. Critical technologies that allow for technological superiority are increasingly dual-use or developed in academia-led partnerships that leverage cutting edge innovation. In an era of global competition, technological superiority requires agile and rapid innovation.
Project DA3, CK8 — Army Advanced Innovation
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FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0603025A (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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/programs/0603025A.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.com → budget_get_program_element, budget_get_cong_marksFY2027 Request
$3.3M
▼ 92% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$43.1M
▲ 893% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$4.3M
Prior year
Army Advanced Innovation — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603025A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project DA3 — Army Advanced Innovation — requests $3.3M in FY2027, 100% of the $3.3M requested for program element 0603025A. Year over year it falls 92% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project DA3 funding, FY2025–FY2031
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 4.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 43.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 3.3 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 4.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 4.6 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 4.9 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 5.1 |
Inside the project
2 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them. Opening lines only here — the full year-by-year narrative is on the project page.
Army Advanced Innovation▼ 46%
FY2025 actual$4.3M
FY2026 enacted$6.2M
FY2027 request$3.3M
Will mature and demonstrate technologies developed by university-led research through experimentation and Soldier engagement in areas such as weapons systems, autonomy, Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR), logistics, and Soldier-enabling systems.
Advance Army University Research Hubs▼ 100%
FY2025 actual—
FY2026 enacted$3.5M
FY2027 request—
Will mature and demonstrate technologies originating from or through university-led research that have matured to or near a commercial use that has the potential for breakthrough or dual-use capability to significantly advance military applications in priority or directed transformation areas such as weapon systems, human machine…
Project detail
What project DA3 buys
This project funds the Advanced Development portion of the Army Innovation Plan, the Army's investment strategy to rapidly accelerate innovative solutions to challenging Warfighter problems. This project will provide the Army with the most advanced and cutting-edge solutions with the ability to adapt and integrate multi- disciplinary innovative technologies by bridging the interfaces between internal and external efforts for a holistic entry into the acquisition pipeline at the most appropriate milestone. Cross-cutting modernization initiatives leverage strategic partnerships that foster an environment to bring knowledge and expertise to demonstrate innovative technologies that will benefit the warfighter. The pace of advancing technology and the flexibility to respond to cutting-edge technology at the Speed of Innovation, will accelerate the development of unanticipated technology opportunities, and allow the Army to rapidly deliver capabilities to the Soldier. Through the Army's Innovation Oversight Board, the Army senior leadership approves the Innovation projects in the budget year and year of execution based on priority and opportunity, ensuring that innovations have a high potential for filling capability gaps and transitioning to Army S&T projects to inform an optimal technology investment strategy and rapidly deliver capabilities to the Soldier. This project is coordinated with PE 0602002A (Army Agile Innovation and Development-Applied Research) / project DC4 (Army Applied Innovation). Work is performed by the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM), Army Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C), the Engineering Research and Development Center, Space and Missile Defense Technical Center, the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, and the Army Research Laboratory (ARL).
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$1.0M
▼ 89% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$9.7M
Prior year
Advanced Technology Development and Convergence — one RDT&E project inside PE 0603025A. Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, not on a project.
Project CK8 — Advanced Technology Development and Convergence — requests — in FY2027, 0.0% of the $3.3M requested for program element 0603025A. Year over year it falls 100% against FY2026.
Funding trajectory
Project CK8 funding, FY2025–FY2026
Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
Actual Enacted
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 9.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 1.0 |
Inside the project
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan — and they are descriptive: coverage is partial and they do not always add back to the project, so count them, never total them.
Advanced Technology Development of Existing Commercial Technology▼ 100%
FY2025 actual$9.7M
FY2026 enacted$1.0M
FY2027 request—
FY2026 to FY2027 change Funding decrease reflects the strategic reallocation of resources to support evolving priorities and objectives.
FY2026 plans — current year Will mature and demonstrate, and transition innovative technologies that solve warfighter problems. The Army Innovation Oversight Board will approve efforts in the budget year and year of execution based on priority efforts and the potential impact to the warfighter. These efforts may include, but are not limited to, emerging technologies that enhance unit lethality and survivability, promote unit readiness, increase the Army's ability to engage in lethal fires, improve methods to remove Soldiers from harm, and improve unit efficiency. These efforts could transition as new programs of record, transition into existing programs of record, transition to other science and technology efforts…
FY2025 accomplishments Assess, seed, demonstrate, integrate and bridge technologies which will allow for rapid transitions that will transition to acquisition and other programs to deliver capabilities to Soldiers. Innovation efforts funded under this line will be approved by Army Futures Command senior leaders in the budget year and year of execution based on priority and opportunity. This Army innovation program will accelerate approved efforts that support the design of the Army of 2040 and enable the Army's Transform in Contact (TiC) units.
Project detail
What project CK8 buys
The Army aims to accelerate finding innovative solutions for the warfighter's difficult technological problems. This effort develops new ways of doing business to include strategic and non-traditional partnerships while working with traditional vendors in novel ways to allow for agile integration of leading-edge technology. This effort enables the Army to quickly implement novel solutions garnered from operational experimentation. It allows the Army to accelerate efforts with industry to better inform requirements. Transformation & Training Command senior leadership approves innovation projects in the budget year and year of execution based on priority and opportunity, ensuring that innovations have a high potential for filling capability gaps. These efforts transition to programs of record; transition to Army Science and Technology (S&T) projects; inform requirements and concepts; and, when appropriate, transition directly to the warfighter. Work is performed by the Army Applications Laboratory (AAL).