What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2918 of PE 0603758N. 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 projects that demonstrate significant, system engineering, and hardware development to advance technology into a form suitable for demonstration. The goal will be to conduct a multi-year S&T effort to respond to emerging concepts and doctrine. Efforts that will be concluding include a demonstration of semi-automated thermal nonskid application to increase efficiency in application to ships as well as mine countermeasures using autonomous underwater vehicles. Efforts ongoing include the development of a fully integrated system to enable effective, multi-km High Energy Laser target engagement by sensing and correcting for optical distortions produced by turbulence.
Increase to funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to increased demonstrations of advance technology at the Naval Research Laboratory in support of High Energy Laser sensing into a fully integrated system for correction of optical distortions from turbulence.
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 projects that demonstrate significant, system engineering, and hardware development to advance technology into a form suitable for demonstration. The goal will be to conduct a multi-year S&T effort to respond to emerging concepts and doctrine. Efforts will include demonstration of semi-automated thermal nonskid application to increase efficiency in application to ships as well as mine countermeasures using autonomous underwater vehicles. New efforts will include development of a fully integrated system to enable effective, multi-km High Energy Laser target engagement by sensing and correcting for optical distortions produced by turbulence.
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 | 5.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 10.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.5 |
This activity is 52% of project 2918's FY2027 request and 22% of PE 0603758N'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.
6 activities in project 2918
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.