What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project RD of PE 0605000BR. 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.
- Improve autoscaling and load balancing to ensure Nuclear, Chemical, Biological, Radiological and high-Explosive Analysis Toolset optimized for increased speed, with no impact to fidelity, due to large data input and flow. - Develop multi-mission monitoring capabilities to improve U.S. International Monitoring System (IMS), strategic DoW missions, and Interagency emergency response. - Provide U.S. Strategic Command higher fidelity targeting analytic capabilities, expanding to meet the UK Ministry of Defense and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)/Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe needs through Enhanced Consequence Analysis. - Begin integration testing of transformative noble gas analysis system for implementation in the Nuclear Arms Control Technologies IMS. - Begin assessments of commercial signature collection and analysis technologies and methodologies for potential integration into IMS. - Develop additional Nuclear Capabilities Services tools to provide common core nuclear effects calculation engine for all DTRA programs, updated semi-annually, expanding to support Enhanced Consequence Analysis and to close gaps identified in the Department of War Operating in a Nuclear Environment Capabilities Based Assessment.
The change from FY 2026 to FY 2027 aligns priority spending with the Secretary of War’s highest priorities to strengthen readiness, modernize capabilities, and sustain the force. This includes an increase to expand support for Enhanced Consequence Analysis and close gaps identified in the Department of War Operating in a Nuclear Environment Capabilities (ONE) Based Assessment.
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.
- Develop multi-mission monitoring capabilities through the Nuclear Arms Control Technologies effort to improve U.S. IMS, strategic DoW missions, and Interagency emergency response while strengthening arms control and preparing for WMD crisis events. - Transition installation of 32nd U.S. IMS station into operations, enabling DoW’s nuclear explosion monitoring capacities and detection of evasive nuclear tests. - Start testing and evaluation of next-gen radionuclide particulate sampler for potential IMS integration to improve detection capability. - Begin integration testing of transformative noble gas analysis system in preparation for transition to DoW to improve nuclear detonation attribution. - Provide U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) higher fidelity targeting analytic capabilities via Enhanced Consequence Analysis, expanding to meet the UK Ministry of Defense, and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)/Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe needs.
- Integrate impacts to infrastructure capabilities into cloud-ready nuclear planning tools for U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), UK/Ministry of Defense, and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)/ Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE). - Implement algorithms to enable transition of infrasound propagation models to DoD systems and complete Operational Test and Evaluation of next generation International Monitoring System (IMS) radionuclide lab analysis capability. - Complete installation of 32nd IMS station and deliver improved "state of health" IMS performance and predictive algorithms for monitoring arrays using artificial intelligence/machine learning techniques. - Demonstrate emerging-threat monitoring capability that leverages current systems and extend comprehensive analyses of sensor data from DTRA/Department of State/National Nuclear Security Administration (high-explosive experiments by leveraging machine learning techniques.
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 | 14.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 14.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 16.7 |
This activity is 100% of project RD's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0605000BR'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 RD
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 program-element page.