What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 984 of PE 0604759A. 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.
The Test Enterprise Network Modernization effort will continue in the engineering and manufacturing phase as an enterprise modernizing approach to the network infrastructure at the test ranges. FY 2027 funds in the amount of $33,332 Million will meet the Army Test & Evaluation command requirement to standardize, expand and improve the network (fiber and wireless) that allows modern monitoring, tracking, and troubleshooting of network issues and failure points. Test Centers with high customer demands, such as White Sands Test Center and Yuma Test Center will also be receiving fiber optic network Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) upgrades to address end of life equipment issues. Funds will also be used to continue the acquisition and installation of hardware needed to revitalize and replace the fiber network at ATC, EPG, and YTC. This improved infrastructure will provide large data movement and after-action reviews during Cross Functional Team tests such as Future Vertical Lift and Next Generation Constructive.
Increase due to requirement changes by the test centers and a consolidation of efforts under the TENM umbrella.
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.
The Test Enterprise Network Modernization effort will continue in the engineering and manufacturing phase as an enterprise modernizing approach to the network infrastructure at the test ranges. FY 2026 funds in the amount of $25.230 Million will meet the Army Test & Evaluation command requirement to standardize, expand and improve the network (fiber and wireless) that allows modern monitoring, tracking, and troubleshooting of network issues and failure points. Test Centers with high customer demands, such as White Sands Test Center and Yuma Test Center will also be receiving fiber optic network Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) upgrades to address end of life equipment issues. Funds will also be used to continue the acquisition and installation of hardware needed to revitalize and replace the fiber network at ATC, EPG, and YTC. This improved infrastructure will provide large data movement and after-action reviews during Cross Functional Team tests such as Future Vertical Lift and Next Generation Constructive.
The Test Enterprise Network Modernization effort will continue in the engineering and manufacturing phase as an enterprise modernizing approach to the network infrastructure at the test ranges. FY 2025 funds in the amount of $15.602 Million will continue the standardization of the network that allows modern monitoring, tracking, and troubleshooting of network issues and failure points. Test Centers with high customer demands, such as White Sands Test Center and Yuma Test Center will also be receiving fiber optic network Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) upgrades to address end of life equipment issues. Funds will also be used to continue the acquisition and installation of hardware needed to revitalize and replace the fiber network at ATC, EPG, and YTC.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 15.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 25.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 32.7 |
This activity is 97% of project 984's FY2027 request and 31% of PE 0604759A'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.
4 activities in project 984
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.