What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2966 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 development of Chimera by: - Working Information Warfare advanced technology efforts. - Prototype development and testing at larger scales. - Detailed development details are available at a higher classification level.
The increase in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the maturation of the applied research in PE 0602792N / Project 1502, and the associated migration of efforts and planned increase in the advanced technology development investment in PE 0603673N, Project 2966. Additional details can be provided at a higher classification.
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.
Continue development of the Chimera INP by: - Working Information Warfare advanced technology efforts. - Begin prototype development. - Detailed development details are available at a higher classification level.
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 | 36.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 45.5 |
This activity is 34% of project 2966's FY2027 request and 10% 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.
10 activities in project 2966
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.