R-2A Activity · President's Budget PB2027

Operational Test Command Civilian Pay

Activity a0·Project V02 — ATEC Activities·PE 0605712A·U.S. Army
FY2027 Request
$42.4M
▼ 1.2% vs FY2026
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This activity requests $42.4M in FY2027, 70% of project V02, down 1.2% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2025–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

FY2027 Request
$42.4M
▼ 1.2% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$42.9M
▼ 17% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$52.0M
Prior year
Planned work

What the FY2027 request buys

Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project V02 of PE 0605712A. 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.

FY2027 planned work

Continue to support the costs associated with the OTC civilian workforce for operational testing in support of a subset of Army and DoW acquisition programs, focusing on high priority requests.

FY2026 to FY2027 change

Funding decrease is due to economic assumption.

Before the request year

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.

FY2026 plans — current year

Supports the costs associated with the OTC civilian workforce for operational testing in support of a subset of Army and DoW acquisition programs, focusing on high priority requests.

FY2025 accomplishments

Supports the costs associated with the civilian workforce for OTC operational testing in support of Army and DoD acquisition programs.

Money

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.

2550052.0FY25ACTUAL42.9FY26ENACTED42.4FY27REQUEST
Actual Enacted Request
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual52.0
FY2026Enacted42.9
FY2027Request42.4

This activity is 70% of project V02's FY2027 request and 70% of PE 0605712A'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.

Where this sits

3 activities in project V02

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.

Operational Test Command Civilian Pay — this activity$42.4M ▼ 1%
Operational Test Command Operations Support$9.4M ▼ 10%
Test Technology Sustainment$9.0M ▼ 14%
Source
FY2027 Department of the Army RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibit R-2A · PE 0605712A, project V02 (President's Budget PB2027). Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, never on an activity.
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Markdown twin /programs/0605712A/V02/a0.md · MCP mcp.hitchintel.combudget_get_activity