What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project DP3 of PE 0604854A. 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.
FY27 funding will execute the required testing to enable Soldier experimentation events in FY28. Key events include formally characterizing system performance, developmental and live fire testing, verifying U.S. ammunition compatibility, validating fire control and network interoperability, and initiating the system safety certification for both the MTC and RSV. Supports test site personnel, facilities, developmental and live fire testing, operational scenarios, safety release testing, and ammunition required to conduct system evaluations, including U.S. ammo compatibility and integration to the U.S. fires network, as well as soldier experimentation.
This element was realigned from program 0203743A, project FF9. The FY 2027 funding increase is due to a shift in the Acquisition Strategy. The program conducts developmental and safety testing in preparation for a Soldier Experimentation event in FY 2028.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 34.9 |
This activity is 5.0% of project DP3's FY2027 request and 4.9% of PE 0604854A'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.
3 activities in project DP3
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.