What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3067 of PE 0605513N. 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.
In FY27, efforts will focus on maturing mission-level and collaborative autonomy capabilities to enable heterogeneous groups of unmanned systems to operate cohesively in support of priority operational missions. These capabilities will support One-Way Attack (OWA), Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA), and contested logistics while enabling manned-unmanned teaming to increase operational effectiveness and distributed maritime effects. Key focus areas include the development of collaborative autonomy behaviors that allow multiple unmanned platforms, including surface and aerial vehicles, to share relevant mission data, coordinate actions, and execute missions more effectively in a distributed operational environment. These capabilities will enable platforms to operate as coordinated teams rather than independent assets. FY27 activities will also expand efforts to integrate autonomy software with mission payloads across an array of Medium and RAS platforms. This work will ensure that RAS systems can effectively support mission payload functions in accordance with fleet operational requirements, enabling autonomy software to more tightly couple platform behaviors with mission payload performance. Additionally, FY27 development will focus on resilient autonomy behaviors that allow RAS platforms to operate effectively in degraded or denied environments, including scenarios where GPS and communications are contested or unavailable. The FY27 effort will leverage commercial technologies and rapid acquisition mechanisms, including Other Transaction Authorities (OTAs), to accelerate capability development and integration. Capabilities will be developed iteratively through agile development sprints and on-water demonstrations, allowing for rapid experimentation, testing, and refinement prior to operational transition. These efforts will build upon lessons learned from the Defense Innovation Unit's (DIU) Autonomous Collaborative Teaming (ACT) program, advancing the maturity of collaborative autonomy technologies and delivering operationally relevant capabilities in support of the RAS FoS.
FY27: +$35.5M to support expansion of MUSV and sUSV production and amplified requirements
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Although Project 3067 was zeroed in PB26, the accomplishments below reflect work executed under PB25 funding, with some activities continuing into early FY26.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 20.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 35.5 |
This activity is 23% of project 3067's FY2027 request and 14% of PE 0605513N'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.
7 activities in project 3067
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.