# Rapid Technology and Capability Delivery

**R-2A activity** of project FI3 — Rapid Capability Development and Maturation  
**Program element:** 0605054A — Emerging Technology Initiatives  
**Component:** U.S. Army · **Budget Activity:** 5  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605054A/FI3/a1  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605054A/FI3

> **NEW START.** $38.4M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $38.4M in FY2027, 66% of project FI3 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase reflects change in program focus to rapid prototyping efforts for rapidly-evolving threat-based, contested environments.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 38.4 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project FI3

- [Organizational Expenses](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605054A/FI3/a2) — FY2027 19.5
- Selective Propagation APS Radar (SPAR) (Formely known as WiSPR) — FY2027 0.1
- Human Machine Integrated Formation (HMIF) — FY2027 —
- Operationalizing Hybrid Electric - Ground Vehicles — FY2027 —
- Concept Prototyping — FY2027 —

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0605054A project FI3 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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