What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 312 of PE 0605326A. 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.
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, Expanded Maneuver) in order to inform the development of new capabilities and requirements. As well as other Live Field Experimentation activities and Simulation-Based Experiments (SIMEX) and Table Top Exercise (TTX) for capabilities development that drives technology insertion and provides a tactical unit demonstration/experimentation of capabilities. This directly supports validation of Army 2030 and insights to the design of the Army. FY27 experiments will continue to address concept and capability developments including integration of capabilities for all BCT types; development of future DOTMLPF requirements and solutions; and acceleration and integration of capabilities for current force BCT's and above brigade. Experimentation and learning outputs ensure that the Army has the right people, with the right systems, appropriately enabled, in the right places to support the joint fight. CFWE events include C2 and Counter C2 which Focuses on enabling optimal and timely decision-making through integrated systems warfare, enhancing situational awareness and formation security across domains. Cross-Domain Fires Aims to integrate lethal and non-lethal fires for overmatch, disintegrating threat Multi-Domain Systems (MDS) for Joint maneuver in disaggregated environments. Expanded Maneuver Optimizes maneuver with massed lethal and non-lethal effects, sustaining operations in transparent and contested lethal environments.
FY 2027 funding decrease due to economic adjustments.
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.
Funding enables FCC/USAJMC to conduct Persistent Experimentation and other Live Field Experimentation activities, funds 27 CMEs, and travel associated with assigned experimentation events. FY26 funding enables FCC/USAJMC to lead the 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. As well as other Live Field Experimentation activities and Simulation-Based Experiments (SIMEX) and Table Top Exercise (TTX) for capabilities development that drives technology insertion and provides a tactical unit demonstration/experimentation of capabilities. This directly supports validation of Army 2030 and insights to the design of the Army. FY26 experiments will continue to address concept and capability developments including integration of capabilities for all BCT types; development of future DOTMLPF requirements and solutions; and acceleration and integration of capabilities for current force BCT's and above brigade. Experimentation and learning outputs ensure that the Army has the right people, with the right systems, appropriately enabled, in the right places to support the joint fight. CFWE events include C2 and Counter C2 which Focuses on enabling optimal and timely decision-making through integrated systems warfare, enhancing situational awareness and formation security across domains. Cross-Domain Fires Aims to integrate lethal and non-lethal fires for overmatch, disintegrating threat Multi-Domain Systems (MDS) for Joint maneuver in disaggregated environments. Expanded Maneuver Optimizes maneuver with massed lethal and non-lethal effects, sustaining operations in transparent and contested lethal environments.
FY25 funding enables FCC/USAJMC to lead the Joint Warfighting Assessment (JWA), 4 x Army Focused Warfighting Experiment (AFWE) assessments (AEWE, Cyber Quest, MSSPIX, MFIX), other Live Field Experimentation activities and Simulation-Based Experiments (SIMEX). Resources 2 x FTEs in support of the Joint Test Element, 27 CMEs, and travel associated with assigned experimentation event travel. FY25 experiments will continue to address concept and capability developments including integration of capabilities for all BCT types; development of future DOTMLPF requirements and solutions; and acceleration and integration of capabilities for current force BCT's and above brigade. JMC executes JWA 25 as the annual capstone force modernization exercise for the U.S. Army. JWA 25 will: (1) integrate and assess Multi Domain Operations (MDO) concepts, capabilities, and formations at echelon (BCT to Theater Army/CJTF); (2) train a Joint, Interagency, and Multinational (JIM) force in a challenging and realistic operational environment; and (3) develop future strategic readiness and interoperability in the JIM warfighting team. In FY25, the JTE continues to generate operational solutions to urgent, specific Joint Warfighter problems through a short-term rigorous test program process.
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 | 3.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 11.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.2 |
This activity is 100% of project 312's FY2027 request and 18% of PE 0605326A'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 312
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.