What project CR2 buys
STE-Software (STE-SW) was previously referred to as STE-lnformation System (STE-IS). The Training Simulation Software/Training Management Tools (TSS/TMT) provides two of the three core functions for the Synthetic Training Environment - Software (STE-SW). TSS/TMT converges our current live, virtual, gaming and constructive environments to provide a single, unified training & management environment from Soldier/Squad to Army Service Component Command (ASCC). TSS/TMT provides the ability to train in a single or multiple live, virtual, gaming and constructive environment simultaneously. The Training Simulation Software (TSS), the core STE simulation engine, provides the physical and behavior models necessary to replicate the operational environment to enable collective training from Soldier/Squad through ASCC. The TSS provides entity, aggregate, and common services, as well as adjudicates interactions at the entity level (e.g., Computer-Generated Forces (CGF), and synthetic equipment). The Training Management Tool (TMT) enables units to quickly plan, prepare, execute, monitor, and assess collective training events for readiness. TMT provides an easy-to-use interface, combined with an Intelligent tutor to reduce help-desk support, time, and manpower currently required. TMT leverages training management (data) services and authoritative data sources to enable training on demand regardless of geographic location. In FY 2021, TSS/TMT entered the execution phase of the Software Acquisition Pathway. TSS/TMT facilitates rapid and iterative delivery of its capabilities through a Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) process to support Soldier/Squad (Sq) to Brigade (BDE) level training which began fielding 3QFY2024. The STE-SW ICD was validated 1QFY2025 identifying the Army's guidance to accelerate the NGC capability requirement beginning in FY 2026 that TSS/TMT will support. Next Generation Constructive (NGC) provides the constructive training environment to sufficiently train large scale combat operations (LSCO) in multi-domain operations, to include, joint, land, air cyber, space, and maritime. NGC enables collective training to be conducted for Army Service Component Command (ASCC) and below, while increasing efficiency in planning, preparing, and executing training events.
- Management Services
- Product Development
- Test and Evaluation
Project CR2 funding, 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. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 60.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 136.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 164.4 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 156.8 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 142.5 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 131.9 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 123.1 |
1 accomplishment / planned program
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. Each describes FY2027 work in enough detail to have its own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
FY 2027 STE-SW (TSS/TMT and NGC) funding will continue to focus on the Army's priorities for acceleration of NGC Corps capability to include continuous improvements and development of virtual and constructive capability in FY 2027 per Army directive. Funding supports STE-SW development of iterative incremental capability, testing and…
Read the FY2027 plan →Named performers on project CR2
Performers named in the R-3 exhibit under this project. Share is of the project's whole FY2027 R-3 total — the same denominator the program-element split uses, so the two read on one scale and will not sum to 100% when unnamed or government work is in the mix. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.