R-2A Activity · President's Budget PB2027

Experimentation and Demonstration of Priority Technologies

FY2027 Request
$25.4M
◆ New start in FY2027
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This activity requests $25.4M in FY2027, 100% of project 0304 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

New start

This activity requests $25.4M in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding. There is no incumbent line to compare it with — it did not exist before this President's Budget.

FY2027 Request
$25.4M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year
Planned work

What the FY2027 request buys

Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 0304 of PE 0603382N. 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.

FY2027 planned work

Funds experimentation, demonstration and prototyping of technologies across warfighting domains. -Support prototyping and experimentation of modular, containerized capabilities to evaluate effectiveness in support of multiple missions -Accelerate the ability to expand undersea and surface communications networks as required for future warfighting operations (more details available at higher classification) -Kill chain experimentation of automated shipboard weapons -Perform system evaluation and experimentation to enhance Sub-Surface Warfare (SSW)/Mine Counter-Measures (MCM) capabilities (more details at higher classification) -Demonstration and experimentation of C-C5ISRT capabilities in order to transition into Program of Record fielding and sustainment (more details at higher classification)

FY2026 to FY2027 change

Funds increase resources to close critical capability gaps with projects that are aligned with INDSG, CNOG and Fleet priorities that have received USN endorsement based on a rigorous vetting process.

Money

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.

2500.0FY25ACTUAL0.0FY26ENACTED25.4FY27REQUEST
Actual Enacted Request
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual0.0
FY2026Enacted0.0
FY2027Request25.4

This activity is 100% of project 0304's FY2027 request and 79% of PE 0603382N'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.

Where this sits

1 activity in project 0304

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.

Experimentation and Demonstration of Priority Technologies — this activity$25.4M NEW
Source
FY2027 Department of the Navy RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibit R-2A · PE 0603382N, project 0304 (President's Budget PB2027). Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, never on an activity.
Machine access
Markdown twin /programs/0603382N/0304/a0.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.combudget_get_activity