What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project BS5 of PE 0607150A. 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.
INSCOM will address the operational force reports of increasing threat sophistication that requires matching pace in development of payloads, implants, and exploits to maintain critical advantage across the operational domains, particularly within the electromagnetic spectrum focused on signals intelligence (SIGINT), electronic warfare (EW, composed of the sub-domains of Electronic Support and Electronic Attack), and cyberspace operations. Expand combatant command focal points in accordance with Secretary of the Army service component commander's emerging needs. The requirement to address threat actors and Army multi-domain operations that are expanding across the warfighting domains drive the need to reduce development gaps in these capabilities. We will expand our automated test capabilities to better evaluate capabilities under development. By incorporating artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) into our testing processes, we will increase efficiency and gain a deeper understanding of functional and mission risks. This enhanced test and evaluation by G7 will ensure mission commanders receive a comprehensive risk profile and that the capability meets the supported organization's requirements.
Expansion of Geographic and Functional Combatant Commands Requirements to include CENTCOM, NORTHCOM, SOUTHCOM, and INDOPACOM. To meet new combatant command requirements, enhancement of automated testing processes for cyber capabilities is required. This enhancement will incorporate Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to manage the increased volume of capabilities under evaluation.
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.
Expansion of Geographic and Functional Combatant Commands Requirements to include CENTCOM, NORTHCOM, SOUTHCOM, and INDOPACOM. This requirement is essential to mitigating risk, achieving technological superiority, and ensuring the Warfighter's success. Failure to address this capability gap will hinder INSCOM's ability to research, develop, test, and evaluate (RDT&E), modernize, and integrate government and commercial off-the-shelf multi-domain Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Electromagnetic Warfare (EW), and Cyberspace capabilities INSCOM's Major Subordinate Commands, Theater Army Commands and Functional/Geographic Combatant Command named operations. Expand automated test capability for the evaluation of cyber capabilities and incorporate AI/ML capabilities into testing processes and procedures. The corresponding test and evaluation of these capabilities by G7 ensures that mission commanders receive a full risk profile of the capability and that the capability meets the requirements of the supported organization.
Develop and support leading-edge multi-domain intelligence and cyberspace operations technologies designed to collect, process, exploit, and, when directed, degrade, deny, disrupt, or destroy threat command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I) cyber systems to enable commanders in shaping the operational warfighting environment in order to create conditions favorable to the application of other elements of national power. Support the development of multi-domain intelligence and cyberspace operations technologies in direct support of the full range of missions called for in the National Defense Strategy, Comprehensive National Cyber-Security Initiative, National Security Strategy, National Defense Guidance, Defense Cyber Strategy, Presidential Policy Directive (PPD) 20, National Security Presidential Directive (NSPD) 54, Homeland Defense Presidential Directive (HSPD) 23, and The Army Operating Concept. INSCOM will address the operational force reports of increasing threat sophistication that requires matching pace in development of offensive capabilities to maintain critical advantage across the operational domains, particularly within the electromagnetic spectrum focused on signals intelligence (SIGINT), electronic warfare (EW, composed of the sub-domains of Electronic Support and Electronic Attack), and cyberspace operations. Expand combatant command focal points in accordance with Secretary of the Army service component commander's emerging needs. The requirement to address NEER-PEER threat actors and Army multi-domain operations that are expanding across the warfighting domains drive the need to reduce development gaps in these capabilities.
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 | 9.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 13.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.7 |
This activity is 100% of project BS5's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0607150A'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 BS5
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.