What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 892 of PE 0605711D8Z. 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.
FY 2027 plans will be a continuation from FY 2026. The Office of the Assistant Secretary of War for Critical Technologies (OASW(CT)) will continue to conduct research, studies, and analyses to support updates to and advancement of the critical technology roadmaps related to USW(R&E) priorities. Also, funds will be utilized for studies and analyses with focus not only on closing gaps and identifying overlap, but providing lead-ahead capabilities across all CTAs, the critical technology area industrial base and workforce, including universities. In addition to the CTA analysis and roadmap studies, funds for this project will substantially enhance mission support capabilities for the OASW(CT) to include contractor support for Program Management, System Engineering, Financial Management, and Administrative Support. These mission support elements are essential to the OASW(CT), the CTAs currently identified, and ultimately the mission of OUSW(R&E).
The total decrease of $0.752 million from FY 2026 to FY 2027 for contract services is undertaken in direct support of the President’s executive order, which prioritizes cost efficiency, transparency, and the consolidation of services. This measure represents a deliberate workforce optimization strategy designed to streamline resources while safeguarding against adverse impacts to modernization initiatives and overall mission effectiveness.
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.
The Office of the Assistant Secretary of War for Critical Technologies (OASW(CT)) will continue to conduct research, studies, and analyses to support updates to and advancement of the critical technology roadmaps related to OUSW(R&E) priorities. Also, funds will be utilized for studies and analyses with focus not only on closing gaps and identifying overlap, but providing lead-ahead capabilities across all CTAs, the critical technology area industrial base and workforce, including universities. In addition to the CTA analysis and roadmap studies, funds for this project will substantially enhance mission support capabilities for the OASW(CT) to include contractor support for Program Management, System Engineering, Financial Management, and Administrative Support. These mission support elements are essential to the OASW(CT), the CTAs currently identified, and ultimately the mission of OUSW(R&E).
Adversary and competitor actions seek to disrupt and diminish the United States’ advantages. Advancement of research and development in the critical technology area priorities will enhance the United States’ competitive advantage. The Department will conduct analysis and research studies to support updates to, and advancements of critical technology area roadmaps synchronized with related priorities. Analysis includes the critical technology area industrial base and the workforce, including universities. The studies and analyses conducted will focus not only on closing gaps and identifying overlap but providing leap-ahead capabilities across all critical technology areas. In addition to the CTAs' analysis and roadmap studies, funding executed for this project will substantially enhance mission support capabilities for the OASD(CT), providing a boost to furthering the foundation and ultimately aiding in the acceleration of delivering capabilities that provide the technical advantage of the Department.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 11.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.9 |
This activity is 100% of project 892's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0605711D8Z'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 892
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.