What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project EV7 of PE 0603645A. 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.
This funding will further refine Developmental Engineering efforts to include but not limited to Advanced Combat Vehicle Concepts, enable faster prototyping and fielding of critical capabilities, integrate emerging technology into formations to innovate, and refine requirements with Vehicle Excursions, Aided Target Detection and Recognition (AiTDR), Segmented Composite Rubber Track (S-CRT), Vehicle Base Kits (VBK) Gen 3, Virtual Operator/Maintainer, Virtual Fielder, Active Protection System Sensing (APS) and other combat vehicle technology advancement efforts. These advanced development efforts will include performance analysis, trade space analysis, capabilities assessments, and hardware demonstrations to support the emerging technologies to support the Army's Modernization Strategy. Additionally, include the maturation of the Ground Common Infrastructure Architecture (GCIA), Small Form Factor Common Compute, data architecture and open architecture standards.
FY 2027 funding increase is due to continuing activities for Advanced Combat Vehicle Concepts efforts, Virtual Operator/Maintainer, Virtual Fielder, the maturation of the Ground Common Infrastructure Architecture (GCIA), Small Form Factor Common Compute, and Vehicle Excursions while initiating activities for Aided Target Detection and Recognition (AiTDR), Segmented Composite Rubber Track (S-CRT), Vehicle Base Kits (VBK) Gen 3, and other activities.
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.
This funding will further refine Developmental Engineering efforts to include but not limited to Manned Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) Protected Comms, Advanced Combat Vehicle Concepts, Autonomous Vehicles, Advanced Combat Vehicle Concepts, Combat Vehicle Light-weighting, Compound Eye, Vehicle Excursions, Aided Target Detection and Recognition (AiTDR), Threat Warning Sensor integration, Segmented Composite Rubber Track (S-CRT), Virtual Operator/Maintainer, Active Protection System Sensing (APS) and other combat vehicle technology advancement efforts. These advanced development efforts will include performance analysis, trade space analysis, capabilities assessments, and hardware demonstrations to support the emerging technologies to support the Army's Modernization Strategy. Additionally, include the maturation of the Ground Common Infrastructure Architecture (GCIA), Small Form Factor Common Compute, data architecture and open architecture standards.
This funding further refined Advanced Combat Powertrain (ACP) maturation, which is comprised of the Advanced Combat Engine (ACE) and the Advanced Combat Transmission (ACT). Abrams A1E3 is slated to use the ACT as part of the base platform. Another potential transition partner for this effort is XM30 but could be applied to other combat vehicle platforms. Other Developmental Engineering efforts include but are not limited to Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) Protected Comms, Vehicle Excursions, Advanced Combat Vehicle Concepts, Combat Vehicle Light-weighting, Combat Optimization for Robotic Systems, Autonomy, Integration, and Reliability (CORSAIR), small-scale, system-of-systems demonstration and other combat vehicle technology advancement efforts. These advanced development efforts did support performance analysis, trade space analysis, capabilities assessments, and hardware demonstrations of the emerging technologies for the Army's Modernization Strategy. Additionally, these efforts supported the maturation of the Ground Common Infrastructure Architecture (GCIA), data architecture and the continued refinement and maturation of open architecture standards.
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 | 7.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 10.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 19.9 |
This activity is 84% of project EV7's FY2027 request and 84% of PE 0603645A'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.
3 activities in project EV7
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 program-element page.