What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project CR3 of PE 0604121A. 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.
FY 2027 funds in the amount of $29.175 million will continue development for direct fire, automated casualty, shoulder launched munitions, indirect fire, counter defilade, and network products. FY 2027 funds will also continue the combat vehicle, sUAS, C-sUAS development.
The increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects the development of Increment 2 products to include artillery, Ground Combat Vehicles (GCV), Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Shoulder Launched Munitions (SLM).
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.
FY 2026 Base RDTE dollars in the amount of $14.528 million furthers development of STE Live Increment 2 prototypes for the Shoulder Launched Munitions (SLM) variations such as the Individual Assault Munition (IAM) and Multi-role Anti-Armor Anti-personnel Weapon System (MAAWS), direct fire, counter defilade, and ground combat vehicles prototype. This is in addition to hardening, environmental testing, and a series of record test to exit prototyping and enter production and fielding. The base dollars will also modify the Combat Training Center networks, enabling these networks to support STS/LTS Inc 1 and Inc 2 products. Additionally, base funding will establish enterprise level business processes and services enabling STE Live program to efficiently develop, operate, and secure capabilities in accordance with OSW Digital Engineering and Army Digital Transformations Strategies. Efforts will promote synergies between the training and testing enablers to improve product development, integration, and cyber activities, and to promote re-use of common assets and services to Army modernization priorities.
FY 2025 Base RDTE dollars in the amount of $32.870 million furthers the development and hardening of STE Live Inc 1 TESS and continues the development of Inc 2 TESS, including Small Arms Direct Fire, Counter Defilade, and Ground Combat Vehicles.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 32.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 14.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 29.2 |
This activity is 100% of project CR3's FY2027 request and 13% of PE 0604121A'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 CR3
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.