What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1163 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.
Leprecaun Trap - Initiate data collection and Modeling and Simulation environment for collaborative technique development across a multidisciplinary team of industry and government performers. - Initiate development of assured cyber capabilities with signal processing algorithm research, environmental characterization, and metrics identification. - Initiate hardware, software, and communications architecture design and development. - Initiate Concepts of Operation and Employment in conjunction with stakeholders. - Initiate planning for spiral testing of integrated hardware and software products.
The increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the selection of this FNC to initiate in FY 2027 due to promising technology maturation from applied research investments previously made in BA 02 in 0602750N. This is not a new start.
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 | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.0 |
This activity is 13% of project 1163's FY2027 request and 2.5% 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.
15 activities in project 1163
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.