What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1164 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.
Advanced Non-Kinetic Evaluation for Re-engagement (ANKER) - Complete model-based systems engineering design and operator workflows for integration into existing systems to provide naval capabilities for real-time non-kinetic effectiveness feedback with industry and government performers. - Complete development of software products to enhance non-kinetic effectiveness employment and feedback through algorithm research, data collection, model development, and metrics definition. - Complete comparative algorithm characterization in modeling and simulation environment - Complete FNC transition (Software and Knowledge products) to the Integrated Combat System (ICS) Program of Record. - Initiate a final Demonstration At-Sea (or LVC if fleet assets cannot support)
The increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is primarily due to the cost of conducting a final Demonstration At-Sea.
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.
Advanced Non-Kinetic Evaluation for Re-engagement (ANKER) - Continue the ANKER FNC by completing the Concept of Operation and implementation studies with stakeholder organizations so as to guide the development, integration, test and transition of algorithms and capabilities for non-kinetic effectiveness. - Continue model-based systems engineering design and operator workflows for integration into existing systems to provide naval capabilities for real-time non-kinetic effectiveness feedback with industry and government performers. - Continue development of software products to enhance non-kinetic effectiveness employment and feedback through algorithm research, data collection, model development, and metrics definition. - Continue comparative algorithm characterization in modeling and simulation environment to study impacts on non-kinetics feedback functionality in identified naval systems. - Conduct experimentation in LVC environment.
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 | 10.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.1 |
This activity is 13% of project 1164's FY2027 request and 2.7% 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 1164
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.