What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project MT4 of PE 0603884BP. 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.
Receive Phase II prototypes and conduct a Soldier Touch Point (STP) and limited government testing. Down select and award a Phase III contract to 1-2 vendor(s) to refine their prototypes further based on test results and feedback. Complete Phase III Contractor Qualification Testing (QT) and receive prototype(s) in preparation for another STP and government led testing.
Increase of FY 2027 funds due to intensive prototype refinement, integration, testing and Phase III modifications to incorporate lessons learned and government directed enhancements.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
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 and complete Phase I prototype testing and award Other Transaction Authority (OTA) contract option/down-select. Conduct Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and initiate Phase II prototype testing. Conduct iterative software development/integration within each prototype phase transitioning to more advanced subsystem.
Completed Simplified Acquisition Management Plan (SAMP), Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP), Test and Evaluation Strategy (TES) and Program Protection Plan (PPP). Initiated source selection for ADS prototyping with 3 initial awards planned for 1QFY26. Conducted early test methodology, performance and decontaminant compatibility in support of prototype testing.
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 | 3.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 7.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.0 |
This activity is 18% of project MT4's FY2027 request and 2.6% of PE 0603884BP'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.
7 activities in project MT4
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.