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RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve

PE 0604025F·U.S. Air Force·Approp. 3600 — RDT&E·BA4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes
FY2027 Request
$0.0M
Air Force · RDT&E
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U.S. Air Force requests $0.0M in FY2027.

FY2027 Request
$0.0M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
▼ 100% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$72.4M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Air Force is requesting $0.0M for Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve under RDT&E program element 0604025F, against nothing enacted in FY2026.

Funding trajectory

Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031

Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.

2550072.4FY25ACTUAL0.0FY26ENACTED0.0FY27REQUEST0.0FY280.0FY290.0FY300.0FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual72.4
FY2026Enacted0.0
FY2027Request0.0
FY2028Outyear0.0
FY2029Outyear0.0
FY2030Outyear0.0
FY2031Outyear0.0
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes.

Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Complete
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Current
Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element

1 project rolls up into PE 0604025F

Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year.

Project 640862

Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve

$0.0MFY2027 request
FY2025 actual$72.4M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M
Product Development

No funds requested in the FY 2027 President's Budget. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898, 0606398F. This effort is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P), because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
RDT&E Program Wide Activities
FY2025 actual$72.4M
FY2026 enacted$0.0M
FY2027 request$0.0M

FY2027 planned work No efforts planned in FY 2027.

FY2026 to FY2027 change Not Applicable.

FY2026 plans — current year No efforts planned in FY 2026.

The whole program

RDER is funded on 2 lines across 2 appropriations

This program element requests nothing for RDER in FY2027. The program is still funded — $0.0M of it — but on other lines, which usually means the work is transferring.

Also funded hereTypeComponentFY2027 $M
Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve (RDER)RDT&EDefense-Wide—
RDER totalAir Force, Defense-Wide0.0

Lines whose title names the program. 2 further lines only mention RDER in their justification text — those fund something else and are deliberately excluded from the total.

Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

No funds requested in the FY 2027 President's Budget. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898, 0606398F. This effort is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P), because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.

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Project 640862 — Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve
  • Product Development
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FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0604025F (President's Budget PB2027).
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