# Project 312 — Army/Joint Experimentation

**Program element:** 0605326A — Concepts Experimentation Program  
**Project:** 312  
**Component:** U.S. Army  
**Appropriation:** 2040 — RDT&E, Army  
**Budget Activity:** 6 — RDT&E Management Support  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605326A/312  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605326A

## Summary

Project 312 — Army/Joint Experimentation requests $10.2M in FY2027, 18% of the $55.6M requested for program element 0605326A, down 36% on FY2026. 1 R-2A activity decomposes the request.

## Funding profile

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 8.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 16.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.2 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 11.1 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 11.2 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 8.8 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 8.9 |

> Estimate types are not summed. This project is one leaf of PE 0605326A; the PE total is the sum of its projects, never added to them.

## What project 312 buys

This project supports current and future concepts and capabilities development, design and integration in support of the Army Vision and Army Modernization Strategy. Experimentation focuses on the latest Army Warfighting Concept, operational and organizational concepts to validate and provide insights to develop and design the future Army. Live, virtual, and constructive environments explore concepts, capability, and formation requirements. Potential solutions across Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and Education, Personnel, and Facilities (DOTMLPF) domains are developed. 3 x Concept Focused Warfighting Experiment (CFWE) assessments (C2 and Counter C2, Cross Domain Fires, Expanded Maneuver) in order to inform the development of new capabilities and requirements. assessments executed in the field with human participants with emerging technology to emulate relevant threat assessments. These efforts result in lessons learned and mitigate risk for current and future forces. Experiments and multi-scale assessments inform Army future concepts and assess high-risk conceptual assumptions in order to focus required capabilities, formations and represent user requirements in the future Army. Experiments use the combined resources of Army Battle Laboratories, operating force units, research laboratories, materiel developers, concept developers industry, and academia to collaborate in the development, refinement, and assessment of future force concepts, capabilities and Army formations. This project also supports the Army's Simulation-Based Experiments (SIMEX) and Table Top Exercises (TTX) to integrate and assess near, mid, and far-term future force concepts, force designs, and Future capabilities.

## Activities (R-2A) — 1

| Activity | FY2025 | FY2026 | FY2027 | Move | Page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Experimentation - CFWE - High-Fidelity Live-Virtual-Constructive Experiments and Simulation-Based Experiments | 3.9 | 11.0 | 10.2 | −8% | [a0](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605326A/312/a0) |

> Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only — no five-year plan. In the request year they partition this project exactly; in earlier years they can under-cover it.

### Experimentation - CFWE - High-Fidelity Live-Virtual-Constructive Experiments and Simulation-Based Experiments

Funding enables FCC/USAJMC to conduct Persistent Experimentation and other Live Field Experimentation activities, funds 27 CMEs, and travel associated with assigned experimentation events. FY27 funding enables FCC/USAJMC to lead the 3 x Concept Focused Warfighting Experiment (CFWE) assessments (C2 and Counter C2, Cross Domain Fires…

Full year-by-year narrative: https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605326A/312/a0

## What is NOT on this page

Congressional marks, the R-2 mission description and acquisition strategy, the industry vs government split of the whole request, and related program elements are recorded at **program-element** grain — an NDAA mark lands on a PE, never on a project. They are at https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605326A.

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibits R-2/R-2A/R-3, PE 0605326A project 312 (PB PB2027).
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_program_element(pe="0605326A")`.

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