What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 642001 of PE 0604257F. 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.
- Will demonstrate inoperability with Sensing for Asset Protection using Integrated Electronic Network Technology (SAPIENT), a "FIVE EYES" and NATO sense-making standard. - Will complete a hybrid transition of Birdbox with AFRL. - Will demonstrate completed integration of initial NAVAIR ATRs into Birdbox. - Will demonstrate Collaborative Teaming with Birdbox follow-on Adaptive Tactical Real-time ISR Unified framework for Mixed platforms (ATRIUM). - Will refine small Unmanned Aerial System (s-UAS) ATR training using data collections from demonstrations. - Will continue to mature existing ATRs for maritime detections and fusion. - Will flight demonstrate an AgilePod sense and sense-making solution. - Will deploy WASP into an IL-6 environment. - Will investigate and incorporate a large language model into WASP.
Funding increased due to increased Air Force development in Counter-Long Range Kill Chain initiatives. Additional details available at a higher classification.
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.
- Develop modular, real-time, multi-domain battlespace awareness in highly contested environments with the following activities. - Complete transition of Birdbox. - Complete integration of NAVAIR ATRs into Birdbox. - Support Collaborative Teaming demonstration. - Mature existing automatic target recognition (ATS) algorithms for maritime detections and fusion.
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 | 8.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 15.0 |
This activity is 39% of project 642001's FY2027 request and 39% of PE 0604257F'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.
2 activities in project 642001
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.