What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 990 of PE 0603308A. 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 to support Army modernization efforts as the Army's operational and developmental linchpin ensuring Space and High-Altitude capabilities are built, deployable, usable and sustainable by Army Warfighting forces. Provide essential support to the Army Transformation Initiative (ATI) by developing concepts to integrate emerging technologies to enhance Multi-Domain Operation with a particular focus on increasing Multi-Domain Task Force (MDTF), Multi-Domain Effects Battalion (MDEB) and Theater Strike Effects Groups (TSEG) capabilities.
Increase in Space and High-Altitude Capability Development reflect the continued emphasis on this primary function of the SMDCoE under the Command's restructuring to optimize its ability to deliver critical warfighting capabilities as part of the Army Transformation Initiative.
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.
Despite resource reductions, continue to support Army modernization efforts as the Army's operational and developmental linchpin ensuring Space and High-Altitude capabilities are built, deployable, usable and sustainable by Army Warfighting forces. Provide essential support to the Army Transformation Initiative (ATI) by developing concepts to integrate emerging technologies to enhance Multi-Domain Operation with a particular focus on increasing Multi-Domain Task Force (MDTF), Multi-Domain Effects Battalion (MDEB) and Theater Strike Effects Groups (TSEG) capabilities.
Support Army modernization efforts by developing concepts to integrate emerging technologies to enhance Multi-Domain Operations with a particular focus on increasing Multi-Domain Task Force (MDTF), Multi-Domain Effects Battalion (MDEB) and Theater Strike Effects Groups (TSEG) capabilities.
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 | 13.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 10.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.0 |
This activity is 18% of project 990's FY2027 request and 18% of PE 0603308A'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.
8 activities in project 990
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.