What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1161 of PE 0603673N. 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 spiral development of critical technologies including undersea communication, navigation, autonomy, sensing, hardening, and effects. - Continue subcomponent level reacquisition and neutralization characterization to refine a system of systems level integration plan and transition requirements. - Continue trade study for effects subcomponents informed by prototype data, modeling, and simulation.
The increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to a planned ramp-up of development in FY 2027 as this FNC enters its second year.
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.
Neutralization in Challenging Environments Using Lethal Effects (NICELE) - Initiate spiral development of critical technologies including undersea communication, navigation, autonomy, sensing, hardening, and effects. - Initiate subcomponent level reacquisition and neutralization characterization to refine a system of systems level integration plan and transition requirements. - Initiate trade study for effects subcomponents informed by prototype data, modeling, and simulation.
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 | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 9.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.1 |
This activity is 42% of project 1161's FY2027 request and 2.3% of PE 0603673N'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.
7 activities in project 1161
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.