What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 01 of PE 0605013BL. 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.
Blue List The program aims to begin implementation to significantly streamline the purchasing process to accelerate the delivery of Drone technology to military units. It will incorporate AI-driven search and auto-design tools to help the warfighter select the most suitable drone for their mission. A knowledge hub will be created to foster innovation and information sharing. The manufacturing initiative will enable on-demand and forward-edge manufacturing of approved systems by validating additive and subtractive manufacturing hardware, creating a foundation for just-in-time production. The Blue List will scale to include all uncrewed systems across air, ground, and sea. To ensure the integrity of these technologies, the program will continuously monitor the UxS supply chain for security risks and foreign influence, while conducting ongoing assessments to maintain the compliance and security of all listed platforms and components.
Increased investment in the Blue List ecosystem which is essential for preserving our Nations competitive advantage. The program is the primary framework for delivering vetted and secure unmanned systems to the warfighter, and additional funding is required to meet the Department's objectives. This investment will accelerate acquisition, advance system design with AI, and enable on-demand manufacturing at the tactical edge. It will also allow us to expand the program to all Unmanned Systems (UxS) and secure our supply chain from foreign influence, ensuring our forces retain a decisive, all-domain edge.
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 | 12.4 |
This activity is 91% of project 01's FY2027 request and 91% of PE 0605013BL'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.
2 activities in project 01
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.