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 will continue to build upon the features started in FY2026. With Soldier feedback, continuous development and delivery of features will enable ground robotics to grow with the Soldiers that they are supporting. Hardware agnostic software solutions continue to mature and iterate the automated acceptance testing within a continuous integration environment, allowing for expedient diagnosing, rapid updating, and incremental capability upgrades for software capabilities of ground robots.
Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is attributed to the establishment of the continuous integration environment in FY2026 that support the continuous development and upgrades of robotic features as prioritized by Soldiers.
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 development of a common, agile approach framework allowing for software centric payload capabilities to work in isolation or be integrated as part of a system. Partnerships allow for the development and maintenance of industry informed, government managed standards for robotic operation and control. Hardware agnostic software solutions will be designed and tested in a continuous integration environment to allow for expedient diagnosing, rapid updating, and incremental capability upgrades for software of ground robots.
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 | 23.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 30.2 |
This activity is 16% of project FB3's FY2027 request and 16% 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.