What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project MD24 of PE 0603890C. 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.
- Plan and execute Digital Transformation; automate the architecture development lifecycle and systems engineering process leveraging digital tools, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML). - Model engineering processes using model based systems engineering (MBSE); begin integration into the Government Reference Architecture. - Establish a single source of truth through integrated baseline models and automated workflows, reducing rework and accelerating decision-making.
Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides for implementation of digital engineering strategies, modernizing the systems engineering processes to drive significant cost and schedule efficiencies.
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.
Congressional Add: Digital Engineering Execution Program ($5.000 million): - Conduct planning for digital transformation of architecture and systems engineering processes.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 53.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 56.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 70.7 |
This activity is 27% of project MD24's FY2027 request and 4.9% of PE 0603890C'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.
9 activities in project MD24
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.