What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project FJ3 of PE 0605602A. 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.
ATEC test centers will continue to provide, acquire, and upgrade instrumentation for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR), RAM, automotive, ballistics, missile, aviation and environmental testing across all test commodity areas and enhance/expand the use of common data collectors, smart devices, and enterprise data management tools. Will provide the necessary test instrumentation, computer and communications systems, data collection, analysis and reporting equipment, and other special test capabilities to successfully develop and test Army weapons and equipment.
FY 2027 decrease due to reduction in critical test instrumentation requirements.
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.
ATEC test centers will continue to provide, acquire, and upgrade instrumentation for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR), RAM, automotive, ballistics, missile, aviation and environmental testing across all test commodity areas and enhance/expand the use of common data collectors, smart devices, and enterprise data management tools. Examples include Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) Common Reference Model (CRM) to implement automation of Testing and Reporting, and reduction in test times; Operational Test Command (OTC) Future Operating Environment - Live, Virtual, Constructive to support the Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) Environment; Aberdeen Test Center (ATC) Test Course Profiler System to support automotive technical performance tests; Electronic Proving Ground (EPG) OTD Mobile Autonomous Remote Controller to support Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Systems; Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) 810H Sand & Dust Chambers to support Indirect Fires Systems; White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) Deployable Range Data Processing & Control System to support Air/Missile Defense Systems; Dugway Proving Ground (DPG) Solid Aerosol Generation system to support Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) testing; and Redstone Test Center's (RTC) Lightning Environment Generation Bank to support Aircraft Systems MIL-STD-464D testing. Funds will help develop, acquire, and upgrade critical Meteorological test technology and instrumentation. Will provide the necessary test instrumentation, computer and communications systems, data collection, analysis and reporting equipment, and other special test capabilities to successfully develop and test Army weapons and equipment.
ATEC test centers will continue to provide, acquire, and upgrade instrumentation for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR), RAM, automotive, ballistics, missile, aviation and environmental testing across all test commodity areas and enhance/expand the use of common data collectors, smart devices, and enterprise data management tools. Examples include Aberdeen Test Center (ATC) Advanced Ballistics Instrumentation Measurements to support Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO); Electronic Proving Ground (EPG) Testing Re-Architected for Distributed Environments (TRADE) for support to C4 network systems; Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) Telecommunications Modernization; White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) Directed Energy Laser test modernization, and Redstone Test Center's (RTC) Pulsed Ultra High Frequency (PUHF) Amplifier System for supporting Future Vertical Lift (FVL) testing. Funds will help develop, acquire, and upgrade critical Meteorological test technology and instrumentation. Will provide the necessary test instrumentation, computer and communications systems, data collection, analysis and reporting equipment, and other special test capabilities to successfully develop and test Army weapons and equipment.
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 | 71.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 67.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 62.3 |
This activity is 100% of project FJ3's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0605602A'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 FJ3
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.