What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project AX3 of PE 0604115A. 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 FY27 this effort will focus on advancing critical capability gaps and enhance the operational effectiveness for the United States Army Europe-Africa (USAREUR-AF) and United States Army Pacific (USARPAC) Army Service Component Command (ASCCs). This effort will leverage prize competitions to drive innovation and collaboration with industry to rapidly prototype capabilities with ASCCs units and soldiers. The prototypes will undergo operational evaluation and continuous refinement. Planned focus areas are EW enabled warfare, integrated offensive and defensive fires and medical and casualty evacuation.
FY 2027 funding increase required for the demonstrations, rapid prototyping, and integration of innovative technologies for Army Service Component Commands. This funding will enable the Army to address critical gaps in closed kill-chains, distributed operations, decentralized maneuver, multi-domain integration, resilient sustainment, AI-enabled advanced protection, logistics, autonomy-enabled mobility and fires, and Allied & Partnered interoperability. The increase reflects the need for full-scale prototype testing, operational evaluations, and refinement of scalable, data-driven deterrence architectures that integrate forward-based elements, autonomous systems, and resilient logistics. Additional resources are required to support expanded testing environments, advanced system capabilities, and preparation for transition to operational use, ensuring technological superiority and collective defense against adversaries.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 25.1 |
This activity is 8.0% of project AX3's FY2027 request and 8.0% of PE 0604115A'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.
28 activities in project AX3
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 program-element page.