What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project UN5 of PE 0604384BP. 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 developing, prototyping, and maturing SO-P CB technologies to rapidly equip users with capabilities in response to new and emerging threats and opportunities. SPU RCDD develops multiple SO-P CB products that close rapid response gaps and reduce risk across the Enterprise through high risk / high reward advanced development. Products developed against SPECAT requirements will be leveraged for further development for additional entities within USSOCOM. SPU RCDD aligns to Integrated Early Warning (IEW), Contamination Mitigation (CONMIT), and Individual Protection (IP).
Increased resources seek to balance portfolio requirements after an increase in USSOCOM requirements through SPECAT and DCR processes.
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 developing, prototyping, and maturing Special Operations Peculiar (SO-P) CB technologies to rapidly equip users with capabilities in response to new and emerging threats and opportunities. SPU RCDD develops multiple SO-P CB products that close rapid response gaps and reduce risk across the Enterprise through high risk / high reward advanced development.
Continued developing, prototyping, and maturing CB technologies to rapidly equip users with capabilities in response to new and emerging threats and opportunities within Understand, Protect, Mitigate, and Enabling commodity areas. Developed Special Operations Peculiar (SO-P) CB solutions for USSOCOM and reduced capability gaps for USSOCOM National.
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 | 7.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 7.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 15.2 |
This activity is 8.1% of project UN5's FY2027 request and 5.8% of PE 0604384BP'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.
25 activities in project UN5
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.