What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 976 of PE 0604256A. 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 system integration and improve the Threat Battle Command Force (TBCF) program with integration of new threats and capabilities as well as reducing the cost of future development, operation and sustainment. Simplify the threat integration requirements to reduce the cost of individual threats and increase the number of electronic support sensors and electronic attack payloads to provide a robust and threat representative capability to support testing of Army systems. By simplifying integrations requirement, TBCF will allow COTS vendors to integrate with larger Army events using a common C2 software. Continue to grow the available threat network options by supporting multiple means of distributed communications such as 4G/5G, satellite and terrestrial communication networks. Begin to incorporate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into TBCF to accelerate the decision cycle of the Threat Force Commander. Continue investing in the Multi-Domain Operations Environment (MDO-E) Testbed to support distributed unclassified and classified test events. Expand the Live-Virtual-Constructive domains (TBCF, IEWTPT, XLCC) to provide rapid experimentation environments in support of the Army Transformation Initiative (ATI). MDO Testbed sustainment and operational support with organic support will continue to be utilized to reduce cost required for outside funding sources and PMs. Continue development on the NGMCNITR program to keep pace with emerging cellular technology required to test new SUTs and train units. Additionally, proliferate the classified networking equipment needed to enable a highly deployable, cost effective, threat force support distributed test and training events. Continue to integrate new and emerging Commercial Off the Shelf (COTs) Radio Frequency (RF) backhaul solution to ensure the most robust, cost effective, solution is fielded. Next Generation Mobile Communication Network Integrated Test Range will expand its capabilities this year by scaling up support for remote threat test operations. It will enhance the ability to pass both unclassified and classified data back to a centralized instance of TBCF. This effort will further streamline the deployment, instrumentation, and operation of near-peer threat forces, while optimizing test planning and execution processes to improve efficiency and reduce resource requirements.
The increase in funding will ensure the continued growth of the MDO-E testbed and development of TBCF in support of the Army Transformation Initiative. To support future MDO level events, TSMO will be producing numerous more threats that will all require integration with TBCF which will need support to ensure performance.
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.
Continue system integration and improve the Threat Battle Command Force (TBCF) network fidelity to support the Combat Training Centers and Threat Force Commander to aid in decision making. Continue to develop and integrate electronic support sensors and electronic attack payloads to provide a robust and threat representative capability to support testing of Army systems. Continue integration of the virtual and constructive threats coming from the eXpeditionary Live-virtual-constructive Command Center (XLCC) and the Intelligence Electronic Warfare Tactical Proficiency Trainer (IEWTPT) to enable live and simulated systems to interact and cause battlefield effects. Continue to improve threat cellular capabilities by upgrading to 5G technology in order to further enhance testing capabilities. Additionally, Next Generation Mobile Communication Network Integrated Test Range will deploy, at scale, the ability to support remote threat test operations and pass data both unclassified and classified back to a single instance of TBCF. This will reduce the time required to deploy, instrument, and operate a near peer threat force and consolidate test planning and execution personnel. Development of a Multi-Domain Operations Environment Testbed to facilitate and enable distributed Test and Evaluation (T&E) events that is focused on convergence of Live-Virtual-Constructive domains (TBCF, IEWTPT, XLCC). Controlled environment will support build-out of Multi-Domain Operations T&E environment for Army 2030, enabling continuous development and a "test-fix-test" approach, as well as comparative evaluation of emerging technology in a collaborative test facility. Provide environment needed to burn down risk, increase test proficiency, and understand capabilities and limitations with dedicated maneuver space and open-air infrastructure for test and experimentation "at range" that will support interoperability, networking, instrumentation, and communications.
Continue system integration and improve the Threat Battle Command Force (TBCF) network fidelity to support the Threat Force Commander and aid in decision making. Continue to develop and integrate electronic support sensors and electronic attack payloads to provide a robust and threat representative capability to support testing of Army systems. Continue integration of the virtual and constructive threats coming from the eXpeditionary Live-virtual-constructive Command Center (XLCC) to enable live and simulated systems to interact and cause battlefield effects. Continue to improve threat cellular capabilities by upgrading to 5G technology in order to further enhance testing capabilities.
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 | 5.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 10.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.0 |
This activity is 20% of project 976's FY2027 request and 20% of PE 0604256A'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.
3 activities in project 976
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.