What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 001 of PE 0605801KA. 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.
Fully implement DTIC’s transition to AI-enabled organization/ collection/ one-stop RDT&E analytics DTIC’s S&T/RDT&E Collection: -- Take full advantage of the strategic value of the AI enabled collection -- perform sophisticated analysis, identify patterns, generate predictive insights --Engage with Military Service Labs; FFRDC; UARCs: Establish formal partnerships and regular communication channels with military service labs (e.g., Army Research Laboratory, Air Force Research Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory) and other relevant stakeholders managing repositories (200+) to proactively identify their current and anticipated information needs, research priorities, and critical data requirements. --Kick off outreach initiative to collect all artifacts from MILDEP labs, repositories, universities; FFRDC; UARCs; and others within the Department; reach out to other federal agencies with DoW holdings (i.e. Department of Energy) --Digitize (AI-ready) historic collection currently at DTIC and existing in paper, microfilm, and microfiches. --Develop taxonomies and ontologies to tap into new DTIC repository DTIC’s RDT&E Data Analytics: -- Redesign the Innovators Information Repository in partnership with DIU and CDAO, to be built in the WDP --Partner with OASW(S&T) to reengineer and build DoW-repositories for: grants, SBIR/STTR, patents --Partner with OUSW(A&S) and OUSW(R&E) to build a new submission and dissemination capability for industry Independent Research and Development projects
The decrease in the FY 2027 request is due to a deliberate reprioritization of Departmental efforts.
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.
DTIC will invest in the AI transformation of the organization, prioritized by the Department. A primary focus is remediating severe mission and security vulnerabilities in the IT platform and building new capabilities utilizing existing IT .
- Increase total submissions by 8% over FY 2024. - Began incorporating automation into submission pipeline. - Deliver bulk submission capability to lower barriers to submission, improve ease of submissions. - Migrated collaboration content and knowledge management platforms to Azure cloud services. - Maintained and enhanced DoDTechipedia capability for users. - Continued to improve and streamline collaborative communications and coordination between S&T and the warfighting community. - Consolidated containerized applications to cloud native architecture to reduce cyber risks and provide users with a consistent view of all data. - Modernized cloud architecture to leverage Azure services a further reduce cyber footprint and maintenance workload. - Further automated the DTIC registration system to enhance seamless registration. - Consolidate user interface components in DTIC’s new cloud environment to improve user experience on DTIC digital products and services by unifying user interface and implementing web accessibility. - Continue to enhance the presentation of information in visualizations making trends and gaps easier to recognize. - Initiate a user profile model to better understand user needs, map outreach messaging to personas, and maximize customer systems engagement. - Enhancing DTIC’s Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) to enhance user profiles and support SaaS advanced analytics. - Build AI and ML models of S&T activity, where technology is progressing. - Continue to publish the Journal of DoD Research and Engineering (JDRE) four times each year, including special editions. - Increase frequency of Innovators Information Repository (IIR) updates to at least quarterly. - Sponsored AI knowledge graph analytics platform for FedRAMP authorization. - Pilot Research Data Hub for small data set sharing.
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 | 65.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 55.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 52.6 |
This activity is 100% of project 001's FY2027 request and 91% of PE 0605801KA'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 001
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.