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 robotics engineering formations with aggressive prototyping efforts. Platforms will conduct overwatch, suppress threats, obscure breaches, and detect, neutralize, and proof enemy obstacles. Cleared lanes will be marked digitally and physically to enhance mobility in a multidomain environment. FY 2027 funds will procure prototypes and execute Solider Evaluation.
Decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to transition from prototype hardware procurement in FY 2026 to 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 engineering and development for robotics engineering formations with aggressive prototyping efforts. Platforms will be able to suppress the enemy in multidomain environments, create visual and sensor interference using multiple methods, secure the breach site, reduce obstacles, provide protection, and seize key terrain from enemy forces.
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 | 38.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 34.5 |
This activity is 18% of project FB3's FY2027 request and 18% 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.