What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 9B88 of PE 0603598N. 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.
FY 2027 funding is utilized to ramp up execution of crucial Department of the Navy Rapid Capabilities Office (DONRCO) functions necessary for (1) identification of hard problems and capability gaps through coordination and communication with Combatant Commander and Fleet (2) stakeholder engagement to include Warfighter and Industry to identify potential material solutions and (3) execution of Budget Execution-year Technology Selections (BETS) Boards to enable Navy Leadership to make quick, informed decisions on rapidly deployable capability solutions. Efforts include but are not limited to problem definition, analysis, prioritization tool development, industry engagement products, material solution option evaluation, and other specialized products to enable leadership decision and tracking of viable rapid solutions to urgent operational needs.
FY 2026 to FY 2027 increase of $17.59M supports the ramp up of efforts to include more powerful decision-making tools for Navy Leadership's analysis of viable material solutions, increasing the rigor of identifying capabilities to fill operational gaps and deploy to the warfighter with speed. Further, the use of this funding increases magnitude of modernization training through virtual twin edge analytics centered on a common digital warfighting platform with enterprise sandbox technologies.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
FY 2026 funding is utilized to execute crucial Department of the Navy Rapid Capabilities Office (DONRCO) functions necessary for (1) identification of hard problems and capability gaps through coordination and communication with Combatant Commander and Fleet (2) stakeholder engagement to include Warfighter and Industry to identify potential material solutions and (3) execution of Budget Execution-year Technology Selections (BETS) Boards to enable Navy Leadership to make quick, informed decisions on rapidly deployable capability solutions. Efforts include but are not limited to problem definition, analysis, prioritization tool development, industry engagement products, material solution option evaluation, and other specialized products to enable leadership decision and tracking of viable rapid solutions to urgent operational needs.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 20.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 37.6 |
This activity is 100% of project 9B88's FY2027 request and 43% of PE 0603598N'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 9B88
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.