What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 241 of PE 0604715A. 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.
Funding will be used to complete the design, development of the Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) and Main Battle Tank (MBT) visual modification (VISMOD) variants and initiate prototyping of four additional threat vehicles. This development directly supports Army senior leader guidance to rapidly and accurately replicate threat force ground systems at the Combat Training Centers (CTC) creating a realistic and immersive training environment.
Increase due to acceleration of prototype development from 24 to 9 months for priority VISMOD variants that will create a significantly enhanced and modernized portrayal of opposing force mechanized and tracked vehicles to replicate the operational environment at CTCs. FY2027 development will focus initially on Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) & Main Battle Tank (MBT) design, which represents the greatest threat in force-on-force training. Additional prototyping development will include threat support vehicles that will provide additional challenges to the rotational training unit. These VISMODs will include Command and Control (C2), Gun-Mortar, Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM), and Reconnaissance vehicles. Resourcing will provide multiple test events and soldier touch points to validate design and functionality.
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 be used to initiate design, development and integration on two (2) of nine (9) Visual Modifications (VISMODS) variants. Efforts will also include Soldier touchpoints and preliminary design review.
Funding will be used to complete a baseline analysis on a host chassis vehicle in order to prepare for Visual Modifications (VISMODs) to be designed, developed, and integrated into the host vehicles. Efforts will also include preparation of a contract package that will support the prototyping of the OMVR VISMODS.
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 | 3.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 5.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.6 |
This activity is 46% of project 241's FY2027 request and 46% of PE 0604715A'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.
10 activities in project 241
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.