What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3319 of PE 0606355N. 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.
The FY27 iteration ($13.1M) of the FLEX Campaign is in development. Topics will include unmanned systems, artificial intelligence, resilient communications, long range fires, counterintelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, contested logistics, and maritime homeland defense.
OPNAV N94's planned increase ($528K) of the FLEX budget to $13.1M in FY27 will enable NWDC to examine 2-3 additional FLEX initiatives and improve the quality of FLEX products, particularly data analytics and visualization. This increase will expand FLEX's ROI to the fleet by enhancing outcomes across maritime capability development, investment, and delivery.
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.
The FY26 iteration ($12.6M) of the FLEX Campaign includes 16 initiatives (initiative details are classified). Topics include unmanned systems, artificial intelligence, resilient communications, long-range fires, C-C5ISRT, contested logistics, and maritime homeland defense. Based on discussions with OPNAV N94, FLEX will emphasize examination and development of warfare center technologies, thus enabling continued refinement via the USFF Fleet Battle Problem series and the PACFLT Integrated Battle Problem series. Descriptions of FY26 FLEX initiatives are readily available at higher classification. In FY26 to date, NWDC has provided 7 FLEX Campaign Highlights to the Fleet Commanders and 1 quarterly highlight summary to the Navy experimentation community, with more expected as the year progresses. Details are readily available at higher classifications.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 11.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.1 |
This activity is 100% of project 3319's FY2027 request and 36% of PE 0606355N'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 3319
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.