What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2950 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.
Initiate: - ONR experimentation plan in alignment with the 30 Year S&T Strategy to guide multiyear S&T investment in response to emerging concepts and doctrine. - Operational experimentation to determine best of breed technologies from industry and government labs and document results to inform early S&T product development, ensure operational relevancy and fit, accelerate technology maturation, and address additional warfighter needs while working to mitigate capability delivery risk. - Technology operational experimentation events (TOEE) that will address operational problems identified by Fleet/Force inputs. - Execute three TOEEs aligned to stakeholder needs across the requirements, science and technology, and operational communities. These investments consist of focused experiments such as limited technology assessments, limited objective experiments, and advanced capability experiments to provide objective quality evidence and actionable insights to catalyze capability development and inform future S&T investment, divestment, or transition. - Participate in large scale service-level experimentation and international experimentation to assess early Technology Readiness Level concept investigations with Fleet/Force input. The outcomes will inform NRE, and where applicable Allies and International Partner, investment decisions as well as enabling the accelerated transition of S&T to the Fleet/Force.
Funding increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to funding realignment from Proj 2918 to Proj 2950 within the same Program Element.
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 | 22.5 |
This activity is 58% of project 2950's FY2027 request and 34% 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.
4 activities in project 2950
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.