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 support integration and testing of emerging C-sUAS capabilities to accelerate fielding decisions, such as IBCS-M development; NGCM design, development, integration, and test activities (e.g., Critical Design Review, Insensitive Munition/Environmental Testing, Safety Testing, and final Development Testing); C-sUAS non-kinetic effector modifications to improve reliability and payload capabilities, improving operational availability and increasing effectiveness against emerging threats; integration of NGCM and current C-sUAS effectors into a common launcher, increasing combat capability and flexibility for systems currently deployed; and radar software improvement (e.g., multiple simultaneous engagements), to keep pace with changes in enemy threats and tactics. Funding will also enable rapid prototyping, testing, and begin integration of the Unit Common capability onto Army platforms, supporting Developmental Test and Evaluation and Operational Test and Evaluation to assess performance, reliability, and suitability of new systems and technologies; and it will support execution of a Soldier Common systems competition to allow the Army to assess the latest C-sUAS solutions in the wearable and dismounted technology area.
FY 2026 to FY 2027 funding increase supports the initiation and/or acceleration of multiple emerging efforts, such as KuRFS radar software improvements for multiple simultaneous engagements; continued development of IBCS-M; acceleration of NGCM, C-sUAS kinetic and non-kinetic effectors, and Unit and Soldier Common solutions.
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 initiate efforts to address emerging capabilities, such as the NGCM, IBCS-M, C-sUAS kinetic and non-kinetic effectors, Unit Common mobile solutions, and Soldier Common handheld solutions. Funding will be used for integration and testing of emerging C-sUAS capabilities to accelerate fielding decisions.
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 | 88.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 247.2 |
This activity is 69% of project A34's FY2027 request and 69% 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.