What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project RA of PE 0603160BR. 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.
- Develop rapid prototype software applications and data science solutions to enhance visualization of CWMD and nuclear data for situational awareness and information sharing; synchronization of CWMD, nuclear, and crisis response operations; and identification of WMD threats. - Deliver initial operational use of agent-based analytic tools and techniques needed to link massively interacting systems at a level that allows inference of reactions and effects. - Deliver fully operational modeling and simulation tools to predict chemical and biological agent dispersal from drones for use in DTRA’s 24/7 CWMD Interagency Modeling and Atmospheric Assessment Center. - Develop and test cross-cutting CWMD capabilities in support of emergent Combatant Command requirements, including space related capabilities and virtual reality / augmented reality for WMD incident responders. RDT&E efforts to defeat Hardened and Deeply Buried Target (HDBT) may include: - Conduct rapid acquisition of undersea infrastructure defeat options for hard targets to support warfighter mission needs. - Conduct radio frequency vulnerability analysis in support of HDBT mission. - Improve object detection and graph reduction techniques into subterranean mapping capability to reduce the data transfer footprint and improve mapping functionality. - Develop modeling and simulation enhancements to assess hazards associated with striking HDBTs suspected to contain WMD materials (i.e. chemical, bio-hazard, etc). - Conduct testing of material degradation in confined spaces.
The change from FY 2026 to FY 2027 aligns priority spending with the Secretary of War’s highest priorities to strengthen readiness, modernize capabilities, and sustain the force. Reflecting the designation of DTRA as the Hardened and Deeply Buried Target -Defeat (HDBT-D) Enterprise Mission Lead, the Fiscal Year 2027 budget allocates increased funding for HDBT-D efforts.
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.
- Transition to the National Geospatial Agency, the production process and methods to develop building data (e.g. construction and population) in support of Combatant Command (CCMD) requirements for Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response. - Facilitate the initial operational use of agent-based analytic tools and techniques needed to link massively interacting systems (e.g. population behavior, infrastructure, etc.) at a level that allows inference of possible reactions and effects. - Deliver Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability 8.0 with enhanced Chemical, Biological, Rediological, and Nuclear (CBRN) capabilities to include urban transport, up-to-date agents and data, and container architecture enhancing integration to web-based tools. - Develop and test cross-cutting CBRN capabilities in support of emergent CCMD requirements, including sensor communications backhaul and virtual reality / augmented reality for WMD incident responders. - Utilize Applied Data Science to provide rapid prototype software applications and data science solutions to enhance CWMD situational awareness and information sharing, synchronization of operations, and identification of WMD threats. - Leverage federated DoW Platform as a Service (Air Force Platform 1, Operational Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Next Generation (NEXGEN), and a Data Science Platform) to support DevSecOps, Advanced Analytics, and Transition Hosting on Non-classified Internet Protocol, Secret Internet Protocol, and Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System.
- Provide 24/7 technical reachback assistance, decision support and planning support to Combatant Commands (CCMD), Services, interagency and other government customers to support immediate mission and operational environments; respond to over 1300 requests for information/assistance with over 95% timeliness in responses. - Develop comprehensive capability for modeling atmospheric release and effects of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) material, incorporating the latest threat developments and trends into the Hazard Prediction and Assessment Capability (HPAC) model; develop multi-operating system containerized version to meet Security, Development, and Operations guidance and streamline integration and transition. - Rapidly prototype software applications and data science solutions to enhance CWMD situational awareness and information sharing, synchronization of operations, and identification of WMD threats. Maintain rotating portfolio in various stages of development, from initial concept through transition to advanced developer or to the customer for sustainment. - Develop data integration, analysis and visualization solutions in support of mission partners; apply advanced analytics to develop novel capabilities for illuminating and disrupting procurement and proliferation networks and coordinating CWMD operations; transition operational prototype applications/processes to supported commands/units or sustainment programs. - Deliver engineering /vulnerability studies identifying areas for continued capability development to support CCMD counter threats; develop/deliver rapid prototype CWMD and emerging threat capabilities addressing emerging theater CWMD requirements, with focus on: vulnerabilities analysis, human-machine interfaces, networked sensing and signatures, next generation communications, and disruptive technologies. - Develop and deliver critical technical capabilities responsive to urgent, emergent theater requirements in support of critical strategic partners via non-traditional, efficient acquisition pathways; deliver timely technical capabilities in response to emergent needs that would otherwise not be met in the required timeline. - Enhance and integrate toolset under the DTRA Requirements Management Tool to capture, document, decompose, and prioritize DTRA RDT&E activities, including the identification and de-confliction of redundancies across DTRA, greater DoD and broader government CWMD capability development activities.
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 | 84.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 46.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 65.1 |
This activity is 100% of project RA's FY2027 request and 13% of PE 0603160BR'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.
1 activity in project RA
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.