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.
Update NW Software Development Kit (SDK) with new functionality. Continue software upgrades in accordance with HQDA priority efforts to include updates to security and operational requirements. FY 2027 funding provides for integration/ automated tools and risk reduction events such as funding to initiate Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning (AI/ML)-based analytics into the Nett Warrior ecosystem. FY 2027 funding also covers increased WatchTower automation processes and Human Machine Interface (HMI) efforts as well as integration with Windows Tactical Assault Kit with RaptorX (TAK-X). Funding aligns to ensure Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC) integration and interoperability with existing capabilities as the program approaches convergence in FY 2028. Funding also includes further development of Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM). Continue Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) software integration and development of TAK plugins to support unit operations. Continue network architecture transition to division-level management and conversion to standardized common operational picture across all echelons.
Increase due to cyber security costs and operational requirements in support of Army Transformation Initiatives.
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.
Update NW Software Development Kit (SDK) with new functionality. Continue software upgrades to Next Gen C2 component software based on security and operational requirements. FY 2026 funding provides for integration/ automated tools and risk reduction events such as well as funding to initiate of Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning (AI/ML)-based analytics into the Nett Warrior ecosystem. FY 2026 funding also covers increased WatchTower automation processes and Human Machine Interface (HMI) efforts as well as integration with Windows Tactical Assault Kit with RaptorX (TAK-X) and Soldier Borne Mission Command (SBMC). Funding also includes further development of Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM). Begin Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV) software integration and development of TAK plugins to support unit operations. Begin network architecture transition to division-level management and conversion to standardized common operational picture across all echelons.
Evaluate next generation NW / Android Tactical Assault Kit (ATAK) map engines and Operating System (OS) trade studies software development efforts with NW. Update NW Software Development Kit (SDK) with new functionality. Continue software upgrades to Next Gen C2 component software based on security and operational requirements. FY2025 funding provides for integration/ test equipment and risk reduction events such as Project Convergence FY25, as well as funding to initiate of Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning (AI/ML)-based analytics into the Nett Warrior ecosystem.
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 | 5.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 15.0 |
This activity is 35% of project EQ8's FY2027 request and 35% 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.