What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 087 of PE 0605100D8Z. 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.
In FY 2027, JMETC Distributed Test will continue to support the Department’s enterprise-wide distributed test, big data analysis, and experimentation capabilities. Highlights include: - Continue to expand CHEETAS data suites to accelerate test report generation from taking months to days - Increase cloud storage and services to enable T&E data availability requirements across the acquisition lifecycle - Continue All Domain Test Range (ADTR) joint experimentation at Combatant Commands - Begin commercial and DoW customer support using the enterprise digital test and evaluation environment to support distributed testing and software DevSecOps assessment needs
The $36.933 million increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 will support expanding CHEETAS data suites to accelerate test report generation.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
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.
In FY 2026, JMETC Distributed Test continues to support the Department’s enterprise-wide distributed test, big data analysis, and experimentation capabilities. Highlights include: - Build on the success of CHEETAS by delivering analytical capabilities within a next-generation virtual testbed composed of decision-quality data tools - Modernize network connectivity and collaboration by delivering next-generation services in support of expanding program and Combatant Command experimentation requirements - Expand federated hybrid cloud, creating a cost-effective solution that ensures cloud interoperability between services and provides the T&E community with wider access to enterprise capabilities - Continue All Domain Test Range (ADTR) capability development to support joint experimentation at Combatant Commands - Conduct limited user test of digital test and evaluation environment with goal of delivering a minimum viable product (MVP) for commercial and DoW customers to support distributed testing and software DevSecOps assessment needs
In FY25, JMETC Distributed Test will continue expanding the Department’s enterprise-wide test capability to support system-to-system interoperability testing and mission-level environment testing. Highlights include: - Build on the success of CHEETAS by developing and implementing improved next-generation big data analysis solutions - Expand secure, distributed JMN connectivity to an additional 20-30 sites to include OCONUS and Partner facilities - Increase cloud expansion to enable T&E data availability requirements across the acquisition lifecycle - Expand JSN connectivity to CONUS and OCONUS sites to enable integration of T&E capabilities with INDOPACOM - As a recognized Enterprise Cross-Domain System (eCDS) provider, make eCDS improvements to support T&E community emerging requirements to support other than secret and partner releasability requirements - Increase expansion of Development, Security, Operations (DevSecOps) capabilities to enable rapid cyber evaluation, integration, and deployment of developed capabilities - Develop All Domain Test Range (ADTR) to support joint experimentation at Combatant Commands
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 127.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 125.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 162.9 |
This activity is 100% of project 087's FY2027 request and 69% of PE 0605100D8Z'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.
1 activity in project 087
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.