What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 329 of PE 0603289D8Z. 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.
Conduct modeling and simulation, mission engineering, and technical and operational analysis aligned to high priority operational problems. Focus areas for FY 2027 analysis include integrated air and missile defense, long range kill chains, and counter long range kill chains. Analysis will inform current and future SCO and Department of War programs.
The decrease will fund fewer studies and analysis to identify high-impact concepts for prototype development to solve highest priority Combatant Command challenges.
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.
Continue to innovate in partnership with Services Program Offices and CCMDs to identify game-changing uses of existing and mature systems and technologies to prepare for presentation to the Cross Functional Teams.
Continue to innovate in partnership with Services Program Offices and CCMDs to identify game-changing uses of existing and mature systems and technologies to prepare for presentation to the Cross Functional Teams.
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 | 28.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 20.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 27.0 |
This activity is 52% of project 329's FY2027 request and 52% of PE 0603289D8Z'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.
3 activities in project 329
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.