What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project DM2 of PE 0606118A. 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.
Software development architecture enhancements and foundational modeling and simulation to support remotely operated autonomous systems and AI enabled fire control. Enables significant reduction of human-in-the-loop interactions across sensor and effector platforms, leverages AI technologies and techniques reducing human cognitive load, augments required tasks, and increases system performance.
FY 2027 begins AI related software development and modeling and simulation activities across the AIAMD architecture.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 164.1 |
This activity is 25% of project DM2's FY2027 request and 25% of PE 0606118A'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.
4 activities in project DM2
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.