What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project EQ8 of PE 0604818A. 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.
Provide NW software / hardware updates to support incorporation of 3rd party software applications onto NW EUD platform and cyber security testing ahead of convergence with SBMC. Continue DARPA SHARE network server reduction infrastructure transition capability. Continue integration and certification testing of ISW Multi-Mode Body Area Network chipsets/packaging within NW system. Supports Watchtower provisioning in the Windows operating system. Continue Human Machine Integration (HMI) hardware and software integration efforts. Continue Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) integration. Continue network architecture transition to division-level management and conversion to standardized common operational picture across all echelons.
Increase due to software upgrade which consist of new software security and operational requirements, Watchtower initiatives, and source selection for EUDs.
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 to evaluate next End User Devices (EUD) and associated hardware components to stay aligned with commercial and Army evolving requirements. Provide NW software / hardware updates to support incorporation of 3rd party software applications onto NW EUD platform and cyber security testing. Support Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) integration and transition of future technologies. Continue DARPA SHARE network server reduction infrastructure transition capability. Continue integration and certification testing of ISW Multi-Mode Body Area Network chipsets/packaging within NW system. Supports Watchtower provisioning in the Windows operating system. Begin Human Machine Integration (HMI) hardware and software integration efforts. Begin Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) integration. Begin network architecture transition to division-level management and conversion to standardized common operational picture across all echelons.
Evaluate next End User Devices (EUD) and associated hardware components to stay aligned with commercial and Army evolving requirements. Provide NW software / hardware updates to support incorporation of 3rd party software applications onto NW EUD platform and cyber security testing. Support Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) integration and transition of future technologies. Continue DARPA SHARE network server reduction infrastructure transition capability. Continue integration and certification testing of ISW Multi-Mode Body Area Network chipsets/packaging within NW system. Supports Watchtower provisioning in the Windows operating system.
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 | 2.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 18.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 20.4 |
This activity is 48% of project EQ8's FY2027 request and 48% of PE 0604818A'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 EQ8
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.