What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 095 of PE 0603941D8Z. 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.
In FY 2027, DET will continue to address test technology maturation needs addressing: - Kill chain assessment for Directed Energy systems in operationally relevant environments to include survivability assessments - Directed Energy Weapon systems testing shifts from demonstration of prototypes to fielded systems and programs of record
The $0.242 million increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 will support continued technology maturation for DET projects.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
In FY 2026, DET continues to mature technologies to accelerate delivery of Directed Energy Weapon capabilities to the warfighter. Highlights include: - Continue improving assessment of HPM survivability and vulnerability of space systems - Continue developing cUAS testing instrumentation - Continue improving HPM Modelling and Simulation in support of lethality assessments and test safety
In FY25, DET will continue to mature technologies to accelerate delivery of Directed Energy Weapons capabilities to the warfighter. Highlights include: - Upgrade HPM sensor field measurement instrumentation - Measure HPM fields for airborne HPM weapon characterization - Develop HPM sources for survivability and vulnerability testing as well as to support HPM lethality assessments - Develop mobile reusable HPM test assets DET will also initiate efforts to: - Improve assessment of HPM survivability and vulnerability of space systems - Develop cUAS testing instrumentation - Improve HPM Modelling and Simulation in support of lethality assessments and test safety
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 2.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 10.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.4 |
This activity is 100% of project 095's FY2027 request and 0.3% of PE 0603941D8Z'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.
1 activity in project 095
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.