# N&NC Experimentation

**R-2A activity** of project 645350 — Experimentation  
**Program element:** 0604060F — Experimentation  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force · **Budget Activity:** 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604060F/645350/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604060F

> **NEW START.** $39.3M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $39.3M in FY2027, 100% of project 645350 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** focus on improving on-premises infrastructure to support DoW scalable environments, data analytics, and AI tool suites to support the integration of intelligence, planning, and operations data to address immediate mission needs. For example, this capability provides analysts with instant access to AI driven dashboards and alerts that fuse sensor feeds, logistics, and mission plans to rapidly enhance border monitoring, illicit trafficking detection, and domain awareness which significantly reduces analytic workloads, accelerates operational planning, and drives decision superiority in direct support of Homeland Defense (HD) and the Unified Command Plan (UCP).

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** This program, BA 4, PE 0604060F, project 645350, N&NC Experimentation, is a new start.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 39.3 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0604060F project 645350 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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