What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project EK7 of PE 0603619A. 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.
Deliver prototypes to Engineer Brigade units to validate the systems' operational effectiveness. Conduct formal Government qualification and safety testing to ensure the Terrain Shaping systems are safe, suitable, and effective for operational use. Conclude with a soldier-operated live-fire validation exercise, confirming the system's operational readiness. Conclude with decision point for approval to continue to rapid fielding or continue prototyping.
FY 2026 funding for the XM250 Close Terrain Shaping Obstacle was redirected after the Army Acquisition Executive terminated the program. Following a Decision Authority Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) codifying the Terrain Shaping Capability 2QFY26 Acquisition Shaping Panel, all $21M of the FY 2026 funds will support the award of up to 4 prototyping contracts. FY 2027 funding levels will support Terrain Shaping prototype contract maturation, test and validation efforts.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Award up to 4 prototyping contracts that will seek to develop, integrate, and mature a prototype system that achieves Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 7 at a demonstration event 12 months after the OTA award. Conclude with decision point for approval to authorize Engineer Brigade validation phase or continue prototyping and technical maturation.
Prototype effort to seek and evaluate terrain shaping solutions in the areas of C5ISR, target effectors, robotic emplacement and recovery, and obstacle planner and management.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 38.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 21.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.3 |
This activity is 100% of project EK7's FY2027 request and 42% of PE 0603619A'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.
2 activities in project EK7
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.