# Joint Lethality Engineering (JLE)

**R-2A activity** of project 122 — Tech Modernization Transition Assessments (TMTA)  
**Program element:** 0604791D8Z — Multi-Domain Joint Operations (MDJO)  
**Component:** Defense-Wide · **Budget Activity:** 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604791D8Z/122/a3  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604791D8Z

> **NEW START.** $15.6M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $15.6M in FY2027, 49% of project 122 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** Continue executing the Eloquent Omen (EO) analytic campaign to inform the development of non-kinetic capabilities in a strategically informed way. EO remains focused on de-escalation and preserving decision space while exploring technologies and capability exchanges with allied and partner nations. Additional classified information available upon request. Continue joint service/DoW partnerships to investigate fully informed, all-security level, faster-than-real time, theater-wide, multi-domain, sea floor to space mission level analysis to enable the exploration of adaptive Joint warfighting concepts. Initiate integration of mission level analysis into campaign framing tools that can be built and delivered across the services in support of Mission Engineering and Integration Activity (MEIA) and Combatant Command Requirements.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase in FY 2027 reflects realignment of JLE effort from PE 0603142D8Z, P124 to MDJO PE0604791D8Z, P122. In FY 2026, JLE was executed in PE 0603142D8Z, P124.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Continue JLE initiative focusing on distinct military challenges related to advanced warfighting architectures, operational concepts, and associated capability development. Additional classified information available upon request. • Continue executing the Eloquent Omen (EO) analytic campaign to inform the development of non-kinetic capabilities in a strategically informed way, focused on de-escalation and preserving decision space. Additional classified information available upon request. • Continue fully informed, all-security level, faster-than-real time, theater-wide, multi-domain, sea floor to space mission level analysis to enable the exploration of adaptive Joint warfighting concepts.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 15.6 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 122

- [Technology Modernization Transition Reviews (TMTRs) and Senior Governance Forum (SGF) support](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0604791D8Z/122/a2) — FY2027 16.4
- Project Identification Activities — FY2027 0.0
- Project Transition Activities — FY2027 0.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0604791D8Z project 122 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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