What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 109 of PE 0606114D8Z. 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.
Initiatives will include studies, analyses, and assessments focused on continuing efforts to promote transparent, robust, integrated, and well-designed analysis through - Development of data and knowledge management - Evolving the methods and tools used in strategic analysis - Closing analytic gaps to underpin key senior leader decisions
FY 2026 to FY 2027 increase is due to the Military Services increased responsibility for executing modeling and simulation recapitalization and modernization.
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.
Studies, analysis and assessments will be focused on: -Establishing clear priorities and standards to focus analyst on decision support -Improving transparency across the analytic community -Improving the quality of and expanding access to data -Evolve the methods and tools used in strategic analysis
Studies, analysis and assessments will be focused on: -Establishing clear priorities and standards to focus analyst on decision support -Improving transparency across the analytic community -Improving the quality of and expanding access to data -Evolve the methods and tools used in strategic analysis
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 | 0.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 5.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.7 |
This activity is 100% of project 109's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0606114D8Z'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 109
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.