What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 124 of PE 0603142D8Z. 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.
• Increase the availability of tools and enhance the performance of the JCDE infrastructure to accommodate new users, expand secure connectivity, deploy to new government and industry sites, and meet growing data processing demands. • Expand the JCDE boundary by integrating with the High-Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP). • Expand the JCDE and SAFE-SiM user base and extend support to additional Combatant Commands to address critical mission requirements. • Continue to enhance the SMART-KM knowledge repository by populating and curating data and models, including expansion to other Combatant Commands. • Promulgate additional training and familiarization courses for JCDE and SAFE-SiM across the DoW and its innovation ecosystem. • Continue to develop, integrate, and test new advanced plug-ins and tools. • Establish a Data and Model Configuration Control Board to verify and adjudicate model pedigree and tagging, including security, Intellectual Property (IP), and data rights. • Enhance cloud service offerings by expanding the dedicated circuit to increase speed and compute resources.
Decrease in RDT&E, DW for $2.364 million for savings and efficiencies resulting from SAFE-SiM transitioning out of DARPA to OUSW (R&E).
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
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.
• Establish technical processes for defining, documenting, developing, curating, and maintaining the modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A) tools used by government, academia, industry, and international partners within the JCDE. • Scale JCDE by planning and establishing a virtual private network (VPN) over JWICS for remote desktop access and access to additional High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources to include Authority to Connect to MSIE. • Establish new JCDE nodes and sites by expanding its infrastructure to Government facilities, such as the USINDOPACOM Vanguard Force Command Capability (VFCC). • Continue the research and development of MSIE hardware, SAFE-SiM, and Smart KM software, along with rigorous processes to scale all-domain scenario modeling and analyses that integrate higher levels of fidelity and resolution. • Expand the availability of this capability to additional users from Services, Agencies, and Industry across classified networks through increased connectivity, with the ability to extend infrastructure to different sites. • Develop, mature, and maintain multi-level security capabilities throughout the ecosystem and enhance the knowledge repository (Smart KM) with curated models linked to fully informed threat, scenario, and technology information. • Integrate new toolsets and visualizations within SAFE-SiM, including Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) capabilities. • Build out content for priority threat environments and missions, beginning with the USEUCOM threat environment as a sandbox for COCOM concept development and continuing with priority USINDOPACOM scenarios.
Not applicable.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 52.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 49.9 |
This activity is 100% of project 124's FY2027 request and 35% of PE 0603142D8Z'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.
5 activities in project 124
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.