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.
This effort funds activities associated with the XM30 Government Pre-Production Prove-Out Testing (PPT), including operational test events in support of Transformation in Contact (TiC) and other test and evaluation events aligned with program milestones and decision points. Specific costs survivability testing for two vendors, encompassing the use of armor coupons and ballistic hull and turret assessments. Additionally, this funding covers initial inspections of remaining prototype deliveries, TiC and NTC evaluations in accordance with the PPT and TiC schedule. This effort also includes any testing requirements and associated costs related to the delivery of Software Pathway Minimum Viable Capability Release(s) (SWP MVCR).
The increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is the transition from prototype build to PPT vehicle test to support Transformation in Contact (TiC).
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.
This funds efforts associated with the XM30 Government Pre-production Prove-out testing (PPT), including operational test events in support of Transformation in Contact (TiC) and other test and evaluation events in support of program milestones and decision points. These costs include survivability testing for two vendors with armor coupons and ballistic hull and turrets. These costs include instrumentation, test planning and execution for safety testing and Development Testing (DT), Initial Familiarization Training (IFT) and Experimental Equipment Training (EET) for prototypes delivered from two vendors per the PPT/TiC Schedule. Also included are any testing requirements costs associated with the delivery of SWP MVCR(s).
This cost continues to fund the efforts for the XM30 Government Production Prove-out testing (PPT) of XM30 designs for two vendors. Each vendor will build 8 prototypes for USG test purposes along with 2 Ballistic Hull and Turrets (BH&T). Includes a cost to add 2 battery sets for each of the Ballistic Hull &Turrets (BH&Ts) to support Live fire testing. Due to a schedule change for the Live Fire BH&T delivery, there is an added cost shipping to test sites due to moving around subtests and locations. This cost funds long lead material items including armor coupons, Government Furnished Material (GFM) integration and test spares, lethality ammunition and threat ammunition for the testing of prototypes for two vendors. Also, adds a Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) ballast kit to vehicle G4 during the automotive test block to test and verify the GVWR P-SPECs. This line funds the procurement of the Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement (MILES) gear for the soldier assessments and unanticipated additional development and prove out of the XM913 due to ammo and weapon failures.
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 | 37.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 23.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 56.4 |
This activity is 19% of project CF6's FY2027 request and 19% 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.