What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2297 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.
Unmanned Logistics and Defense: - Continue development and experimentation with highly autonomous and synchronous logistics capabilities. Focus areas include development, testing, and experimentation with a semi-submersible craft designed to support a payload of 8 to 10 tons. - Continue to assess execution of high tempo unmanned sustainment to dispersed and disaggregated forces during joint combined air-ground operations in contested environments. Sustainment: - Continue to sustain and investigate multiple technologies integrated within the MAGTF to experiment with alternate vehicle power, extended mobility, and expeditionary fuel distribution to enable logistics demand reduction and provide alternate sustainment to the MAGTF at all levels. Focus areas include providing a logistics over-the-shore (LOTS) capability tailored to agile, low-signature, minimally manned logistics operations in austere environments. - Complete investigations into atmospheric water generation. Counter Unmanned Aerial System (CUAS): - Continue comprehensive experimentation plan to successfully execute an end-to-end kill-web for developed CUAS capabilities. Focus area includes an integrated Detect-Defeat-Destroy CUAS network that provides threat data to the lowest echelon to increase reaction time and survivability. Explosive Detection/Defeat: - Continue explorations into alternative explosive detection and defeat capabilities. Medical: - Continue to experiment with systems to support a smaller, modular, multi-functional medical concept. Focus area includes conducting large-scale experiments on providing prolonged care for multiple casualties during transport. Warfighter Performance: - Continue to provide increased lethality and mobility to the warfighter through the integration of technology directly attributable to individual combat equipment. Focus area includes providing a battalion and below communications architecture that enables position location information (PLI) tracking, down to the Fire Team level and digital targeting, directly linking sensors to shooters. - Continue to develop, test, assess, and experiment with a RAID Plate. - Continue development of common user interface and fully integrated PACE plan for dismounted troops. Littoral Connectors: - Continue development and enhancement of capabilities for diversified distribution, providing risk worthy, inexpensive platforms for maneuver and sustainment distribution. Focus areas include limited technical assessments and experimentation with a heavy shore-to-shore roll-on/roll-off stern-landing beach landing vessel. - Continue assessments, evaluations, and experimentation with the Navy and Fleet Marine Forces to inform future naval surface vessel requirements, develop TTPs, and refine DMO/EABO CONOPS. Focus areas include limited technical assessments and experimentation with a shore-to-shore roll-on/roll-off bow-landing craft. - Continue assessments, evaluations, and experimentation with small boats to augment littoral maneuver capability. Robotic Modernization: - Continue to provide ground combat element robotic asset maintenance, repair, and upgrades; ensuring systems viability for experimentation and user evaluation. Camouflage, Concealment, and Detection (CC&D): - Continue development (to include investigations into and experimentation) with CC&D capabilities. Integrated Air and Missile Defense: - Continue development of passive and active methods to detect, track, and identify air threats.
The funding increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is attributed to the re-vitalization of Littoral Connector efforts, specifically related to assessments, evaluations, and experimentation with a shore-to-shore roll-on/roll-off bow-landing craft.
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.
Unmanned Logistics and Defense: - Continue development and experimentation with highly autonomous and synchronous logistics capabilities. - Continue to assess execution of high tempo unmanned sustainment to dispersed and disaggregated forces during joint combined air-ground operations in contested environments. Sustainment: - Complete demonstrations with naval logistics information technology integration with low earth orbit and military satellite networks. - Complete research, design, and build of a littoral maneuver enabler prototype. - Complete sustainment and investigations into selected technologies integrated within the MAGTF to experiment with hybrid energy and small unit water purification. - Continue to sustain and investigate multiple technologies integrated within the MAGTF to experiment with alternate vehicle power, extended mobility, and expeditionary fuel distribution to enable logistics demand reduction and provide alternate sustainment to the MAGTF at all levels. - Initiate investigations into atmospheric water generation; a process that extracts water from humid ambient air, producing potable water. Counter Unmanned Aerial System (CUAS): - Continue a comprehensive experimentation plan to successfully execute an end-to-end kill chain for developed CUAS capabilities. Focus area includes dismount-capable CUAS architecture to provide force protection and friend-from-foe identification model-building development efforts. Explosive Detection/Defeat: - Complete development of an autonomous explosive detection and defeat capability; integrating specialized sensors for enhanced neutralization. - Complete spiral technology development to produce a mobile explosive hazard in-depth defense. - Initiate explorations into alternative explosive detection and defeat capabilities, focusing efforts on the surf-zone. Medical: - Continue to experiment with systems to support a smaller, modular, multifunctional medical concept that can support medical care ashore and within MLRs by performing studies, integration with unmanned systems, demonstrations, and experimentation. Focus area includes providing prolonged care for multiple casualties while enroute. Warfighter Performance: - Continue to provide increased lethality and mobility to the warfighter through the integration of technology directly attributable to individual combat equipment. Focus area includes development of an advanced situational awareness sensor network to aid in digital kill-web acquisitions. - Continue to develop, test, assess, and experiment with a Radio Agile Integrated Device (RAID) Plate; a single operator-worn device that facilitates simultaneous control of unmanned ground, air, and surface platforms. - Continue development of common user interface and fully integrated Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency (PACE) plan for dismounted troops. Littoral Connectors: - Continue development and enhancement of capabilities for diversified distribution, providing risk worthy, inexpensive platforms for maneuver and sustainment distribution. Utilize current commercial technology to enhance maneuver to and from seabases and expeditionary advanced bases in the littorals with the ability to deliver directly to the users at shore. Focus areas include undergoing detailed engineering design as well as conducting limited technical assessments (LTAs), Foreign Comparative Testing (FCT), and experimentation. - Continue assessments, evaluations, and experimentation with the Navy and Fleet Marine Forces to inform future naval surface vessel requirements, develop TTPs, and refine Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO)/Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) concept of operations (CONOPS), pertaining to Force Design 2030 and the activation of MLR units. - Continue assessments, evaluations, and experimentation with small boats to augment littoral maneuver capability in support of Force Design 2030. Robotic Modernization: - Continue to provide ground combat element robotic asset maintenance, repair, and upgrades; ultimately ensuring systems viability for experimentation and user evaluation. Camouflage, Concealment, and Detection (CC&D): - Continue the development of CC&D capabilities. Integrated Air and Missile Defense: - Continue development of passive and active methods to detect, track, and identify air threats.
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 | 47.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 35.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 43.9 |
This activity is 26% of project 2297's FY2027 request and 15% 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.
6 activities in project 2297
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.