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.
FY 2027 RDTE supports the development of payloads that are unique and tailorable to specific mission sets for integration onto robotic platforms. Funding provides for hardware and software development, integration, and test for kitted capabilities that can be applied for specified mission environments.
Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is driven by user and industry feedback advocating for the automation of routine tasks across the formations which will allow Soldiers to be free for higher priority missions.
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 payloads that are unique and tailorable to specific mission sets for integration onto robotic platforms. Funding provides for hardware and software development, integration, and test for kitted capabilities that can be applied for specified mission environments.
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 | 11.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 22.6 |
This activity is 12% of project FB3's FY2027 request and 12% 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.