What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 630320 of PE 0603032F. 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 planning and early systems engineering for development of autonomous/AI aided software microservices that will serve as Command and Control (C2) decision aids enabling Battle Staff and Battle Managers to more rapidly process information and make decisions critical to the employment of kinetic and non-kinetic effects across multi-domain and integrated kill chains. - Continue early systems engineering to develop a system of integrated C2 Decision Aids. - Continue modeling, simulation, and analyses (MS&A) and capability development activities that enhance the DAF ability to support orchestration of joint all domain effects, to include manned/unmanned teams and kinetic and non-kinetic effects, at speed and scale. - Commence requirements maturation with stakeholders to include, Program Executive Office (PEO), Authorities to Operate (ATOs), and Digital Infrastructure Hosting. - Commence testing and evaluation to identify most impactful algorithms developed, providing optimal benefit to the warfighter. - Commence rapid transitioning of novel technology to counter evolving adversary threats, addressing both current and future operational needs. - Commence the improvement of data sources and analytics to feed the Long Range Kill Web. - Commence the development of a testbed capability to rapidly quantify expected sensor performance, including existing feeds and anticipated performance with future feeds. - Commence requirements maturation with stakeholders to include, Program Executive Office (PEO), Authorities to Operate (ATOs), and Digital Infrastructure Hosting. - Commence the development of a transition path/plan for algorithms which improves sensing capabilities to support future PEO transition to create a permanent Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for rapidly incorporating future new S&T.
FY 2027 funding increased compared to FY 2026 by $8.281 million due to commencing maturation of requirements with stakeholders, testing and transitioning advanced algorithms, improving data analytics, and developing a testbed and transition plan for new sensing technologies.
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.
- Stop development of next-generation cross domain solutions through design and prototyping of software services that enable discoverability and reconfigurability of cross domain solution functions. - Stop ground emulation evaluation of hardware and software applications received from selected vendors to assess scalability of emerging technologies. Emulation environment to include hardware and software necessary to optimally route mission data across multiple security levels and heterogenous networks. - Stop modeling, simulation, and analyses (MS&A) integration with multi-domain data transport efforts to assess how networks from multiple domains enhance aerial network & kill-chain in complex information security use cases to identify risks, challenges and synergies. Assess scalability to large number of network nodes in air and mission performance under various network conditions. - Stop integration of software and hardware designs to address any deficiencies discovered during ground simulations and functionality with airborne information management services. - Commence planning and early systems engineering for development of autonomous/AI aided software microservices that will serve as Command and Control (C2) decision aids. (In FY 2026 PB this was reported under the WARTECH effort.) - Commence modeling, simulation, and analyses (MS&A) and capability development activities that enhance the DAF ability to support orchestration of joint all domain effects, to include manned/unmanned teams and kinetic and non-kinetic effects, at speed and scale. (In FY 2026 PB this was reported under the WARTECH effort.)
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 | 6.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 2.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.2 |
This activity is 4.0% of project 630320's FY2027 request and 4.0% of PE 0603032F'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.
14 activities in project 630320
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 program-element page.