What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 302 of PE 0605716A. 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 fund civilian pay. More than 90 percent of AEC's total budget is for civilian labor. Continue to execute AEC 2030 strategic plans and develop and execute the AEC 2035 campaign plan. Initiatives include: maximize strategic communications and streamline processes; improve threat planning and identification of threat assets; invest in talent development programs to attain/fill critical skill gaps; develop AI T&E tools; develop advanced software T&E capabilities; develop methodology for Army Transformation Roadmap AI/ML applications; establish Campaign of Learning methodology and organizational structure, and continue support to the AFC CFTs, RCCTO, AI Task Force/ Working Group, and Contested Logistics.
FY 2027 funding increase for service contracts related to civilian pay initiatives.
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 fund civilian pay. More than 90 percent of AEC's total budget is for civilian labor. Continue to execute AEC 2030 strategic plans and develop and execute the AEC 2035 campaign plan. Initiatives include: maximize strategic communications and streamline processes; improve threat planning and identification of threat assets; invest in talent development programs to attain/fill critical skill gaps; develop AI T&E tools; develop advanced software T&E capabilities; develop methodology for Army Transformation Roadmap AI/ML applications; establish Campaign of Learning methodology and organizational structure. and continue support to the AFC CFTs, RCCTO, AI Task Force/ Working Group, and Contested Logistics.
Fund civilian pay. More than 90% of AEC's total budget is for civilian labor. Will develop and apply new techniques in cloud computing, data mining, data visualization, and presentation of large data sets in support of Army Data Transformation initiatives. Continue to research and develop evaluation metrics for new and emerging technologies in AI/ML, Data Management and Analysis, Virtual/Augmented Reality, Cybersecurity, and aerospace operations. Develop future leaders and invest in improved evaluation tools and capabilities in emerging technologies. Support Army Modernization priorities by providing dedicated support to Army Futures Command CFT concept, RCCTO, AI Task Force, and Contested Logistics. Lead Capstone planning, execution, and reporting activities through its Sensor to Shooter cell. Invest in new modernization efforts to support increasing demands for classified information processing in direct support of Army modernization priorities.
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 | 70.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 60.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 63.3 |
This activity is 97% of project 302's FY2027 request and 97% of PE 0605716A'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.
2 activities in project 302
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.