R-2A Activity · President's Budget PB2027

Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Financial Systems

FY2027 Request
$250.0M
◆ New start in FY2027
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This activity requests $250.0M in FY2027, 100% of project 931 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

New start

This activity requests $250.0M in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding. There is no incumbent line to compare it with — it did not exist before this President's Budget.

FY2027 Request
$250.0M
No FY2026 funding
FY2026 Enacted
$0.0M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year
Planned work

What the FY2027 request buys

Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 931 of PE 0605027D8Z. 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.

FY2027 planned work

In FY 2027, the program will accelerate its modernization by leveraging AI and automation to enhance audit remediation efforts and drive financial transformation. A primary focus will be evolving the Universe of Transactions (UoT) into a more integrated, AI-driven solution, which includes designing new data architecture, creating automated reconciliation algorithms, and implementing AI-powered variance analysis tools. This initiative supports key modernization efforts, such as the advancements of the Intra-Governmental Transactions (IGT), Fund Balance with Treasury (FBwT), and financial reporting reconciliations, while simultaneously enabling the retirement of high-risk legacy financial systems. This will empower the OUSW(C) to sustain critical investments to support the essential data engineering required for reliable data pipelines, preventing inconsistencies that could undermine audit readiness. Collectively, these actions—along with upgrades to systems—will propel the Department toward a secure, centralized, ERP-centric environment, positioning it to successfully meet its FY 2028 audit objectives.

FY2026 to FY2027 change

The increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects the Department’s accelerated transition to a modern, secure, and audit ready financial management environment. It supports accelerated legacy system retirement, expansion of automation and AI enabled internal controls, and the sustainment and completion of key modernization efforts such as the deployment of new software capabilities that will be used to advance Advana for FM. This will strengthen data quality, interoperability, and system reconciliations to meet FY 2028 audit objectives.

Money

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.

5010015020025000.0FY25ACTUAL0.0FY26ENACTED250.0FY27REQUEST
Actual Enacted Request
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual0.0
FY2026Enacted0.0
FY2027Request250.0

This activity is 100% of project 931's FY2027 request and 91% of PE 0605027D8Z'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.

Where this sits

1 activity in project 931

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.

Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and Financial Systems — this activity$250.0M NEW
Source
FY2027 Office of the Secretary of Defense RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibit R-2A · PE 0605027D8Z, project 931 (President's Budget PB2027). Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, never on an activity.
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