What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2223 of PE 0603640M. 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: - Development of adaptive morphing materials that allow for tire overall stiffness control in less than three minutes. - Testing and demonstration of mission planning tactical logistics predictive and analytic tools at fleet exercises. Complete: - Research to advance the broad range of technologies to demonstrate the military utility of enhancing combat capability by increasing energy production, storage, distribution, and curbing energy consumption of the individual Marine and other tactical assets with a particular emphasis on supporting distributed operations. Initiate: - Advanced research development for distributes acoustic sensing efforts tailored to unique expeditionary threat detection applications. - Next-generation fuel cell technology to enable record unmanned aerial system flight persistence and increased payload capacity.
The increase in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the initiation of (1) advanced research development to distribute acoustic sensing efforts tailored to expeditionary threats and (2) next-generation fuel cell technology to enable record unmanned aerial system flight persistence and payload capacity.
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.
- Continue to advance the broad range of technologies to demonstrate the military utility of enhancing combat capability by increasing energy production, storage, distribution, and curbing energy consumption of the individual Marine and other tactical assets with a particular emphasis on supporting distributed operations. - Continue development of adaptive morphing materials that allow for tire overall stiffness control in less than three minutes. - Complete a research effort to research and develop solutions for safe and effective integration of Lithium-ion 6T batteries into soon-to-field energy storage platforms. - Complete to design and deliver a full-scale autonomy-ready system consisting of an Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) capable of towing logistics. The effort will also demonstrate integrated system at-sea in required sea-state conditions. - Complete Navy and US Marine Corps development of class of supply III (fuel) and V (munitions) dynamic calculators into a common data framework. - Initiate testing and demonstration of mission planning tactical logistics predictive and analytic tools at fleet exercises.
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 | 10.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.3 |
This activity is 8.9% of project 2223's FY2027 request and 3.6% of PE 0603640M'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 2223
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.