What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project FI3 of PE 0605054A. 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.
Develop, prototype, and integrate advanced technology solutions addressing operational gaps. Conduct operational user evaluations and field-based assessments of technologies in areas such as advanced sensing, ground and air autonomy, unmanned platforms, resilient communications architectures, contested-environment electronic warfare, and next-generation protection systems. Transition select prototypes to operational use via streamlined contracting and rapid acquisition pathways, accelerating delivery of high-impact, field-ready capabilities. Integrate autonomous behaviors, sensing suites, and precision-effects payloads into existing Army platforms to strengthen lethality, survivability, and mission command in contested environments. Advance Human Machine Integrated Formation (HMIF) efforts to enhance decision-making, situational awareness, and mission effectiveness through manned-unmanned teaming and networked formations. Deliver rapid fielding packages including accelerated training, logistics, digital technical data, and sustainment planning to ensure immediate operational impact upon deployment. Expand digital engineering and MBSE activities to reduce cost, schedule, and technical integration risk and ensure interoperability with Programs of Record and Joint partners.
Increase reflects change in program focus to rapid prototyping efforts for rapidly-evolving threat-based, contested 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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 38.4 |
This activity is 66% of project FI3's FY2027 request and 26% of PE 0605054A'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.
6 activities in project FI3
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.