What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project BC1 of PE 0603118A. 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.
Will mature training, simulation, and operational capabilities by optimizing and integrating cutting-edge technologies across multiple domains. Will validate and demonstrate Spatial Phase Imaging (SPI) sensors for real-time 3D object identification, target recognition, and direct fire engagements during simulated exercises. Cyberspace data models and brokering architectures will be integrated into programs like Joint Land Component Constructive Training Capability (JLCCTC), Persistent Cyber Training Environment (PCTE), and Intelligence Electronic Warfare Tactical Proficiency Trainer (IEWTPT), while dynamic behavior algorithms and hardware acceleration architectures will be matured for large-scale training exercises. Additionally, the effort will validate Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) profiles, authoring tools, and user interfaces aligned to Knowledge Skills Abilities Behaviors (KSABs), as well as simulating first-order effects in the information warfare domain. Synthetic terrain pipeline processes, tools, and software will be matured and demonstrated, along with operationalizing synthetic terrain databases and validating them against existing, non-synthetic datasets, supported by subject matter expertise. Additional maturation and validation will include developing physics-based algorithms for munitions effects, wireless data compression architectures, and scalable terrain solutions for live range environments to enable high-fidelity simulations. Prolonged care solutions for Army medical training will be optimized, including maturing and demonstrating consolidated physiology engines and haptic hardware to address extended austere environments and patient handoff scenarios.
Funding increase reflects transfer to Program Element (PE) 0603118A (Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology) / Project BC1 (Human Performance Adv Tech for Mobility & Lethality) to streamline and optimize the Science and Technology (S&T) portfolio.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 14.3 |
This activity is 26% of project BC1's FY2027 request and 11% of PE 0603118A'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.
9 activities in project BC1
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.