# Engineering, Support, Test & Evaluation for STE Live

**R-2A activity** of project CR3 — STE Live  
**Program element:** 0604121A — Synthetic Training Environment Refinement & Prototyping  
**Component:** U.S. Army · **Budget Activity:** 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604121A/CR3/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604121A/CR3

## Summary

This activity requests $29.2M in FY2027, 100% of project CR3, up 101% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2025–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** 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).

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** 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.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** 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.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 32.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 14.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 29.2 |

> 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 Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0604121A project CR3 (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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