What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project A34 of PE 0605347A. 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.
FY 2027 funding will continue efforts to identify and characterize emerging technologies which support prototyping, integration, and testing of system improvements to increase the capability to sense, decide, and act against future C-sUAS threats, such as integrating an improved seeker and warhead into the kinetic interceptor All Up Round, reducing dependency on higher fidelity radars and increasing effectiveness against emerging threats; continuing improvements to IBCS-M and radar software; developing and integrating new and emerging ammunition rounds, such as the XM1223 Multi-Mode Programmable Ammunition 30mm round; and providing technical refresh of electronic warfare hardware by identifying, testing, and replacing components that are approaching end-of-life and pursuing open architecture solutions for both hardware and software.
FY 2026 to FY 2027 funding increase supports efforts to develop and integrate an improved seeker and warhead for the Coyote kinetic interceptor, as well as additional development efforts for the IBCS-M fire control system.
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.
FY 2026 funding will continue efforts to identify and characterize emerging technologies which support prototyping, integration, and testing of system improvements to increase the capability to sense, decide, and act against future C-sUAS threats. Funding will increase effectiveness of current C-sUAS effectors, by upgrading the data link and initiating development of a larger-capacity launcher, and it will continue improvements to fire control systems for automated decision aids, such as IBCS-M, camera and radar software improvements, and enhanced real-time mission analysis to improve Soldier effectiveness. Funding will also support a sensor competition for a C-sUAS mobile radar, to drive industry technology advancement and allow radar performance to keep pace with evolving threats at the most affordable price, and it will complete efforts to transition from a Transmit/Receive Integrated Microwave Module (TRIMM)-based array to a flat panel array, resulting in lower cost, profile, and weight, while maintaining performance.
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 | 31.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 38.9 |
This activity is 11% of project A34's FY2027 request and 11% of PE 0605347A'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 A34
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 program-element page.