What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 651030 of PE 0604201F. 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.
Continue Digital Engineering OTA and Design Agent OTA efforts. Building and evaluating physical SDAE prototypes and developing digital twin models for both the SDAE and SSDR.
Funding increased due to additional testing and development of SDAE prototypes and digital twin models for both the SDAE and SSDR. Additionally, the large increase in funds corresponds to SDUE's development of fieldable prototypes within the 5-year Rapid Prototyping window. SDUE is currently in year 3 of a 5-year MTA.
FY2026: the year under way
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.
Continue Digital Engineering Other Transaction Authority (OTA) and Design Agent OTA efforts. Building and evaluating physical SDAE prototypes and developing a digital twin model for the SDAE.
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 | 15.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 17.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 166.7 |
This activity is 23% of project 651030's FY2027 request and 23% of PE 0604201F'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.
9 activities in project 651030
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.