What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2098 of PE 0605853N. 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.
Conduct studies in support of the Secretary of the Navy, multiple organizations within the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, and the Fleets. Planned studies in the following areas: - Combat Systems - Cyber and Information Systems - Data Science & Decisions - Defense Systems Management - Global Security Competition - Maritime Battlespace Environments - Modeling, Simulation, & Visualization - Naval Engineering - Space Technology & Operations - Artificial Intelligence - Intelligent Autonomous Systems - Ocean Sciences - Disruptive Emerging Technologies - Innovation
The FY 2026 to FY 2027 increase reflects standard pricing adjustment.
FY2026: the year under way
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.
Conduct studies in support of the Secretary of the Navy, multiple organizations within the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, and the Fleets. Planned studies in the following areas: - Combat Systems - Cyber and Information Systems - Data Science & Decisions - Defense Systems Management - Global Security Competition - Maritime Battlespace Environments - Modeling, Simulation, & Visualization - Naval Engineering - Space Technology & Operations - Artificial Intelligence - Intelligent Autonomous Systems - Ocean Sciences - Disruptive Emerging Technologies - Innovation
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 | 12.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 11.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.6 |
This activity is 90% of project 2098's FY2027 request and 10% of PE 0605853N'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 2098
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.