What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project FB3 of PE 0605053A. 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.
Funding supports the engineering and development for robotics that will support formations to conduct enabling tasks such as Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance missions, sensing and detecting targets and call for fires, resupply, casualty evacuation, and protection. Platforms will be capable of providing the power and capacity to host future Mission Payloads (MPs) and Technical Insertions, including autonomy. FY 2027 funds will procure prototypes, execute testing and Soldier touchpoints.
Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to increased activity associated with initiating Soldier Evaluation in FY 2027.
FY2026: the year under way
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.
FY 2026 RDTE supports the soldier demonstration for platforms that will assist infantry with conducting resupply missions. Platforms will be capable of providing the power and carrying capacity needed to integrate extended communications and future Modular Mission Payloads (MMP) and Technical Insertions, including autonomy. FY 2026 funds will also procure prototypes for other enabling tasks and execute testing and a soldier touchpoint and demonstration scheduled for FY27.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 11.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 21.7 |
This activity is 11% of project FB3's FY2027 request and 11% of PE 0605053A'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.
8 activities in project FB3
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.