What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 986 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.
Continue to expand and enhance the baseline for an operationally realistic test environment and integrate with other systems and tools; refine Real Time Causality Assessment (RTCA) to include non-kinetic effects and centralized battle damage assessments (BDAs); establish technology refresh plan to maintain current hardware; integration with existing and future blue instrumentation at MDO Test and Training Ranges; establish operations across two security domains, continue improving data reduction and collection tools. Additionally, it will extend interoperability with current and future Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) range requirements to include cross domain solutions, provide continuous software updates to allow flexibility and modularity in system capabilities to deploy to test and training ranges; and continue integration of the high-fidelity virtual threat models.
The funding increase supports critical advancements in operationally realistic test environments, including enhanced integration with MDO ranges, refines Real Time Causality Assessment (RTCA) capabilities, and improves cross-domain solutions ensuring continuous software and hardware updates for flexibility and modularity; expands mapping capabilities, and integration of high-fidelity virtual threat models to maintain technological superiority and operational readiness. These investments are essential to address evolving requirements in the Operation Test Command (OTC) roadmap, sustain interoperability across diverse test and training environments, and directly enable the modernization of our forces with next-generation capabilities that align with strategic priorities for future combat effectiveness.
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.
Funds in the amount of $13.038 Million will expand and enhance the baseline for an operationally realistic test environment and integrate with other systems and tools; refine Real Time Causality Assessment (RTCA) to include non-kinetic effects and centralized battle damage assessments (BDAs); establish technology refresh plan to maintain current hardware; integration with existing and future blue instrumentation at MDO Test and Training Ranges; establish operations across two security domains, continue improving data reduction and collection tools; extend interoperability with current and future Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) range to include Synthetic Training Environment (STE); provide continuous Software/hardware updates to allow flexibility and modularity in system capabilities in order to deploy XLCC to a multitude of ranges and test sites; increase the mapping ability to include more locations; begin integration of the high-fidelity virtual threat models.
Funds in the amount of $7.611 Million will build upon and enhance, expand and improve an operationally realistic test environment and integrate with other systems and tools; update Real Time Casualty Assessment to include non-kinetic effects and centralized battle damage assessments (BDAs); increased data reduction and collection tools; provide enhanced interoperability with current and future Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) range threats (e.g. Threat Battle Command Force and Intelligence Electronic Warfare Tactical Proficiency Trainer); provide continuous Software/hardware updates to allow flexibility and modularity in system capabilities in order to deploy XLCC to a multitude of ranges and test sites; increase the mapping ability to include 3D tilting and movement and maps for more test locations; begin integration of the high-fidelity virtual threat models.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 7.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 13.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.0 |
This activity is 100% of project 986's FY2027 request and 13% 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.
1 activity in project 986
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.