What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 0377 of PE 0603654N. 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.
In FY2027, the program will accelerate iterative development and testing of Automated Target Recognition (ATR) algorithms for Rapid Area Detection (RAD). Key priorities include maturing the Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) pipeline for production readiness, enhancing algorithm workflow capabilities at the tactical edge, integrating onto additional sUAS platforms, and delivering a Minimum Viable Capability Release for both the algorithm and MLOps platforms. Both disrupt and precision aim/render safe requirement CDD annex to the Standoff Render Safe and Disrupt (SRSD) base requirement will be validated and enter the engineering, manufacturing, and development phase of the acquisition process. Integration of EOD unmanned sensors and payloads will continue development to meet the RAD and SRSD capability solution. The Access Buried Munition CDD will be validated establishing a formal Joint Program of Record.
Increase is attributed to Access Buried Munitions (ABM) PoR initiation after CDD validation.
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.
FY2026 will continue efforts to facilitate the transition of initial Rapid Large Area Clearance (RLAC) prototypes identified from the Defense Innovation Accelerator (DIA) and bridge the gap toward fieldable joint material solutions. During this period, the Rapid Area Detection (RAD) program will have requirements validated to enter into the Software Acquisition Pathway (SWP) and begin work to deliver an initial Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for ATR algorithms. Standoff Render Safe and Disrupt (SRSD) work will continue in the engineering, manufacturing, and development phase of acquisition for the SRSD portfolio while a disrupt annex continues through requirements validation. RAD and SRSD will leverage EOD unmanned sensors and payloads S&T prototypes from the RLAC DIA to incorporate into their portfolio. The Timed Firing Device (TFD) will finish the engineering, manufacturing, and development phase with a Milestone C (MS C) decision to move into production in FY26.
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 | 16.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 10.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.2 |
This activity is 100% of project 0377's FY2027 request and 26% of PE 0603654N'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 0377
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.