# Battle Lab Experimentation and Support

**R-2A activity** of project 317 — Current Force Capability Gaps  
**Program element:** 0605326A — Concepts Experimentation Program  
**Component:** U.S. Army · **Budget Activity:** 6  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605326A/317/a1  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605326A/317

## Summary

This activity requests $10.1M in FY2027, 33% of project 317, down 8.5% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2025–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** Continues support of requirement determination, documentation, and integration in support of all FCC CDIDs. This will include areas of Maneuver, Soldier, Robotic, and Engineer capability development, Air Defense and Artillery formations, Sustainment watercraft and maneuver support vehicles, intelligence systems and sensors, and Cyber areas of Cyberspace, Networks and Services, Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations and Tactical Radios. Cyber provides support to the Army's Cyber priorities and Cross Functional Team efforts. Funding ensures highly technical requirements development expertise for the Multi-Domain Task Force (MDTF). This ensures use of highly technical expertise to provide quick-response systems engineering support for Multi Domain Operations, MDTF, and other high-priority study areas.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** FY 2027 funding decrease due reduction of planned Battle Lab experimentation events.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** Funding in FY26 ensures continuation of requirement determination, documentation, and integration in support of all FCC CDIDs. This will include areas of Maneuver, Soldier, Robotic, and Engineer capability development, Air Defense and Artillery formations, Sustainment watercraft and maneuver support vehicles, intelligence systems and sensors, and Cyber areas of Cyberspace, Networks and Services, Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations and Tactical Radios. Cyber provides support to the Army's Cyber priorities and Cross Functional Team efforts. Funding ensures highly technical requirements development expertise for the Multi-Domain Task Force (MDTF). This ensures use of highly technical expertise to provide quick-response systems engineering support for Multi Domain Operations, MDTF, and other high-priority study areas.

**FY2025 accomplishments.** Funding in FY25 ensures continuation of requirement determination, documentation, and integration in support of all FCC CDIDs. This will include areas of Maneuver, Soldier, Robotic, and Engineer capability development, Air Defense and Artillery formations, Sustainment watercraft and maneuver support vehicles, intelligence systems and sensors, and Cyber Army Capability Managers (ACM) areas of Cyberspace, Networks and Services, Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations and Tactical Radios. Cyber ACMs provide support to the Army's Cyber priorities and Cross Functional Team efforts. Funding ensures highly technical requirements development expertise for the Multi-Domain Task Force (MDTF). This ensures use of highly technical expertise to provide quick-response systems engineering support for Multi Domain Operations, MDTF, and other high-priority study areas.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 17.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 11.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.1 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 317

- [Requirements Determination](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0605326A/317/a0) — FY2027 20.2
- Army Capability-based Architecture Development and Integration Environment (ArCADIE) — FY2027 0.5

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0605326A project 317 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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