What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 097 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.
- Deliver mission scoring framework for specific mission scenarios - Assess mobile experimental infrastructure services - Increase multi-Service AI test and evaluation support to include AI testbeds capable of assessment of commercially developed AI software - Assess and develop distributed command and control (C2) experimentation
The $0.485 million increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 will support the continued expansion and enhancement of AI test technology.
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, AAIT continues to develop test technologies that accelerate fielding of resilient and trustworthy AI-enabled systems and enable full-up system-of-system tests in operational environments. Highlights include: - Continue development of high-performance computing resources to support continued enhancement of AI test technology - Continue to initiate and develop technologies to support test planning, test execution, and performance assessment of unmanned, autonomous, artificial intelligence, and machine learning systems - Continue development of autonomous systems analysis tools, mobile instrumentation and data repositories to support low cost, attritable autonomous systems testing
In FY25, AAIT will continue to develop test technologies that accelerate fielding of resilient and trustworthy AI-enabled systems and enable full-up system-of-system tests in operational environments. Highlights include: - Transition test technology for machine vision systems, learning systems, and improved safety awareness, and synthetic imagery generation - Initiate technology development for measures of trust/confidence in autonomous/AI-based systems, also measures of effectiveness of human/machine teams - Begin transition of enterprise solutions for autonomous testing across the life cycle that address gaps identified by the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence - Continue development of high-performance computing resources to support continued enhancement of AI test technology - Continue to initiate and develop technologies to support test planning, test execution, and performance assessment of unmanned, autonomous, artificial intelligence, and machine learning systems - Developed autonomous systems analysis tools, mobile instrumentation and data repositories to support low cost, attritable autonomous systems 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 | 16.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 43.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 44.0 |
This activity is 100% of project 097's FY2027 request and 1.1% 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 097
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.