What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project CF6 of PE 0605625A. 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.
Provides Government System Engineering & Program Management Support for Phase 4, Prototype Build and Test, Transformation in Contact (TiC) support for two vendors and the XM30 Software Pathway initiative. The associated costs represent Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) funding allocated to Matrix support within the program management office. This includes leveraging Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support to address critical aspects of the XM30's open-architecture design, such as cybersecurity, software development, and system architecture. The funding encompasses expenses related to government and direct support contractor labor, travel, training, supplies, equipment, and facilities necessary to effectively manage all aspects of the PM XM30 program. Additionally, this effort supports the continuation of consulting services for the development of the Phase 5 Request for Proposal (RFP) and ensures compliance with statutory requirements for milestone reviews.
The decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects reduced requirements for Government management of contractor design activities as the program completes prototype build and enters Test and Evaluation.
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.
Provides Government System Engineering & Program Management Support for Phase 4, Prototype Build and Test, Transformation in Contact (TiC) support for two vendors and the XM30 Software Pathway initiative. The associated costs represent Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) funding allocated to Matrix support within the program management office. This includes leveraging Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) support to address critical aspects of the XM30's open-architecture design, such as cybersecurity, software development, and system architecture. The funding encompasses expenses related to government and direct support contractor labor, travel, training, supplies, equipment, and facilities necessary to effectively manage all aspects of the PM XM30 program. Additionally, this effort supports the continuation of consulting services for the development of the Phase 5 Request for Proposal (RFP) and ensures compliance with statutory requirements for milestone reviews.
Provides Government System Engineering & Program Management Support and funds the efforts to the management support requirements pre and post award of Detailed Design contracts for 2 vendors. These costs reflect the RDT&E funded costs for Matrix support within the program management office and includes the use of System Engineering & Technical Assistance (SETA) support in critical areas of the design of an open-architected XM30 including cyber security, software development and system architecture. This funding will include the cost of government and direct support contractor labor, travel, training, supplies, equipment and facilities to effectively manage the PM XM30 program. Continue consulting effort for Phase 5 RFP development and Milestone statutory compliance.
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 | 38.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 27.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 23.2 |
This activity is 8.0% of project CF6's FY2027 request and 8.0% of PE 0605625A'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.
10 activities in project CF6
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.