What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project A97 of PE 0605275A. 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.
The Army will continue to fund engineering and technical assistance after program initiation. The Army will fund program management support, core information technology requirements, Government matrix technical expertise, and shared services requirements via various Government contracts.
Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 funding will support increase to Technical/Program Management and Support as all three LOEs increase in activity. The increase in contract actions, test events, and prototype issue and evaluation will necessitate increased program office oversight.
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.
The Army plans to establish the CSR Product Office, focusing on staffing and establishing technical assistance contracts to ensure program success. The Army will fund initial engineering and technical assistance at program initiation. The Army will fund a Federally Funded Research and Development (FFRDC) agency for development and integration technical expertise. The Army will also fund program management support, core information technology requirements, Government matrix technical expertise, and shared services requirements via various Government contracts.
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 | 5.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.4 |
This activity is 14% of project A97's FY2027 request and 11% of PE 0605275A'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.
5 activities in project A97
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.