What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project CR4 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 funding will support program management costs and updated terrain data for Mapping and Cartographic Information Systems (MCIS) and map correlation to reflect pre-exercise ground conditions. In addition, OWT will continue to refine constructive terrain data bases that cover the entire globe in support of Multi Domain Operations. Additionally, OWT will support Warfighter Exercise 27-01, the first NGC Corps level exercise directed by the Army. Also, base funding will continue efforts to improve OWT 3D terrain data integration into the Synthetic Training Environment (STE) Family of Programs and Terrain Services in support of NGC development in accordance with validated STE? SW ICD 1QFY2025. Terrain Services are the set of common capabilities provided by OWT including the ingestion and scaling of authoritative data sources, common models, select joint data and interoperability standards, and system architecture.
FY 2027 RDTE funding decrease is due to the transition from purchasing licenses to a subscription based terrain data service. Subscription services offer the advantage of lower costs, continuous updates, and greater terrain customization. The subscription service grants access to all available terrain data that has already been collected by the vendor.
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.
Funding will support the continued automation of OWT feature extraction and attribution as well as program management costs. OWT will provide updated terrain data to Mapping and Cartographic Information Systems (MCIS) for map correlation to reflect pre-exercise ground conditions. In addition, OWT will begin to develop advanced capabilities that allow user-generated terrain captures to be incorporated into the OWT repository and standard commercial tools and technologies to be used for geospatial data editing. Also, base funding will continue efforts to improve OWT 3D terrain data integration into the Synthetic Training Environment (STE) family of programs and Terrain Services in support of NGC development in accordance with validated STE-SW ICD 1QFY2025. Terrain Services include ingestion and scaling of authoritative data sources, common models, select joint data and interoperability standards, and system architecture. Funding will establish enterprise level business processes and services enabling OWT 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.
Funding will support the continued automation of OWT feature extraction and attribution as well as program management costs. In addition, OWT will begin to develop advanced capabilities that allow user-generated terrain captures to be incorporated into the OWT repository and standard commercial tools and technologies to be used for geospatial data editing. Also, base funding will continue efforts to improve OWT 3D terrain data integration into the Synthetic Training Environment (STE) family of programs.
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 | 10.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 25.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 23.4 |
This activity is 100% of project CR4's FY2027 request and 11% 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 CR4
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.