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.
Sensor and Missile Management Against Robust Threats (SMMART) - Continue development of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) informed terminal defense algorithms that will provide robust missile/target pairing and distributed dynamic sensor resource management. - Continue development and testing of algorithms using Deep Reinforced Learning (DRL) to reduce the decision search space needed for sensor-weapon pairing decisions in support of the force mission while reducing the operator's decision time and workload. - Initiate integration level maturation activities using a Forge Development Environment (FDE).
The increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to a planned ramp-up of algorithm development and testing for this FNC in its second year and the conduct of integration level maturation activities in a Forge Development Environment.
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.
Sensor and Missile Management Against Robust Threats (SMMART) - Initiate development of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) informed terminal defense algorithms that will provide robust missile/target pairing and distributed dynamic sensor resource management. - Initiate development and testing of algorithms using Deep Reinforced Learning (DRL) to reduce the decision search space needed for sensor-weapon pairing decisions in support of the force mission while reducing the operator's decision time and workload.
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 | 8.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 16.0 |
This activity is 17% of project 1164's FY2027 request and 3.6% 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.