What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 0148 of PE 0605154N. 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 FY27 CNA will support Navy analytic priorities by conducting studies, providing on-site analytic support to 30 Navy organizations and will provide detailed analyses for two wargames and exercises. CNA will maintain its analytic competencies through a combination of line-funded and sponsor-funded work in the following areas: Analysis of Defense, National Security, and Maritime Operation. This area includes work that helps operating military forces, develop or evaluate new tactics; test or employ new equipment, or plan, conduct, or learn from real-world operations. Analysis of Defense, National Security, and Maritime Policies, Strategies and Doctrine. This area includes broad studies intended to help DoW develop, promulgate, evaluate, or refine new policies, strategies, or doctrine. Analysis of Defense, National Security, and Maritime System Requirements and Acquisition. This area includes work that addresses the potential utility of new technologies; the relative need for new systems or capabilities, or the costs and consequences of acquiring a particular system or family of systems. Analysis of Defense, National Security, and Maritime Resources. This area includes studies or analyses of issues involving workforce management, sustainment, medical, readiness and logistics, or installations and infrastructure. Analysis of Defense, National Security and Maritime Program Planning. This area includes analyses intended to help the military, formulate coherent and executable long-term plans covering the evolution of its missions; the integration or improvement of its capabilities; the acquisition of needed supplies or services; or the future size and shape of its forces.
The funding decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 due to a reduction of analytic support services.
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.
In FY26 CNA will support Navy analytic priorities by conducting studies, providing on-site analytic support to 27 Navy organizations. CNA will maintain its analytic competencies through a combination of line-funded and sponsor-funded work in the following areas: Analysis of Defense, National Security, and Maritime Operation. This area includes work that helps operating military forces, develop or evaluate new tactics; test or employ new equipment, or plan, conduct, or learn from real-world operations. Analysis of Defense, National Security, and Maritime Policies, Strategies and Doctrine. This area includes broad studies intended to help DoW develop, promulgate, evaluate, or refine new policies, strategies, or doctrine. Analysis of Defense, National Security, and Maritime System Requirements and Acquisition. This area includes work that addresses the potential utility of new technologies; the relative need for new systems or capabilities, or the costs and consequences of acquiring a particular system or family of systems. Analysis of Defense, National Security, and Maritime Resources. This area includes studies or analyses of issues involving workforce management, sustainment, medical, readiness and logistics, or installations and infrastructure. Analysis of Defense, National Security and Maritime Program Planning. This area includes analyses intended to help the military, formulate coherent and executable long-term plans covering the evolution of its missions; the integration or improvement of its capabilities; the acquisition of needed supplies or services; or the future size and shape of its forces.
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 | 35.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 25.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 22.3 |
This activity is 100% of project 0148's FY2027 request and 79% of PE 0605154N'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 0148
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.