What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 675 of PE 0605604A. 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.
Will maintain and advance M&S threat representation, analytical methodologies and performance analysis tools to conduct SLV analyses of Army ground, aviation and Soldier systems, component technologies and munitions. Planned activities will include analysis of weapons effectiveness and lethality against near peer threat targets and SLV analyses of components and technologies supporting expanded ground and aviation maneuvers and ammunition. For T2COM, will continue to maintain and generate kinetic/non-kinetic models and threat emulations to support future concepts development. Will provide component and systems-level performance analyses to inform technology maturation, trade-off decisions, and risk reduction.
Funding increase reflects economic adjustment
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.
Will develop and advance Modeling and Simulation (M&S) threat representation and performance analysis tools and methodologies to provide SLV and Human-Machine Integration (HMI) assessments of Army ground, aviation, munitions, and Soldier priority systems and technologies for FCC and Portfolio Acquisition Executives (PAEs). For DEVCOM Centers/ARL, will continue to provide kinetic and non-kinetic analyses. Will also provide cyber and electromagnetic warfare threat emulation and integrated system-level vulnerability and survivability assessments to enable technology development, inform prototype and system design decisions and reduce technology risks through experimentation and Testing and Evaluation (T&E) of ground, aviation, munitions and Soldier technologies.
Developed and advanced foundational SLV analytical capabilities to conduct analyses and assessments of ground, aviation, munitions, and Soldier technology survivability/lethality as specified by AFC/DEVCOM and AEC highest priority systems including vulnerabilities related to Artificial Intelligence (AI), autonomy, human-agent teaming, and Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA). Provided data and analysis support throughout AFC experimentation and the Future Study Program. For DEVCOM Centers/Army Research Laboratory (ARL), provided cyber and electronic warfare threat representation, lethality estimates, and performance analyses to inform prototype technology developers, influence design, and mature ground, aviation, munitions, and Soldier technologies and reduce risk.
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 | 16.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 13.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.5 |
This activity is 43% of project 675's FY2027 request and 43% of PE 0605604A'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.
3 activities in project 675
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.