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RDT&E Program Element · President's Budget PB2027

Combat Ready Airmen (CRA) - RDT&E

PE 0701200F·U.S. Air Force·Approp. 3600 — RDT&E·BA4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes
FY2027 Request
$0.9M
Air Force · RDT&E
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U.S. Air Force requests $0.9M in FY2027 (down from a FY2026 peak), sustained across the five-year plan. In the FY2027 defense authorization, the House funded it in full; the Senate funded it in full; House appropriators funded it in full.

FY2027 Request
$0.9M
▼ 3.8% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$1.0M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year

For fiscal year 2027, the U.S. Air Force is requesting $0.9M for Combat Ready Airmen (CRA) - RDT&E under RDT&E program element 0701200F, down 3.8% from FY2026.

Funding trajectory

Funding profile, FY2025–FY2031

Prior years are actuals, the budget year is the request, and the outyears are the FYDP plan. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.

00.0FY25ACTUAL1.0FY26ENACTED0.9FY27REQUEST1.0FY281.0FY291.0FY301.0FY31
Actual Enacted Request Outyear (FYDP)
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual0.0
FY2026Enacted1.0
FY2027Request0.9
FY2028Outyear1.0
FY2029Outyear1.0
FY2030Outyear1.0
FY2031Outyear1.0
Where it sits

Acquisition lifecycle

This program is funded in RDT&E Budget Activity 4 — Advanced Component Development & Prototypes.

Complete
Research
BA 1–2
Complete
Advanced Technology
BA 3
Current
Prototyping
BA 4
Later
Development & Fielding
BA 5–7
Inside the program element

1 project rolls up into PE 0701200F

Projects are the summable leaves — the PE total is their sum, never added to it. Program elements and projects carry the full five-year plan; activities stop at the budget year. This PE moves -4% overall, which can hide much larger swings below.

Project 64712R

Combat Ready Airmen (CRA) - RDT&E

$0.9MFY2027 request ▼ 4%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$1.0M
FY2027 request$0.9M
Support

Enterprise Select Class II (formerly Combat Ready Airman) provides resources to perform lead command roles and responsibilities and includes requirements management, test & evaluation, assurance of operational safety, suitability, and effectiveness. This effort is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P), because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.

Accomplishments / planned programs (R-2A) — prior, current and budget year only
Enterprise Select Class II (ESCII)▼ 4%
FY2025 actual$0.0M
FY2026 enacted$1.0M
FY2027 request$0.9M

FY2027 planned work FY27 funds Mobility Bag development, test, and evaluation of Department of the Air Force organizational clothing and individual equipment. Efforts continuation of Extreme Cold Weather Boots, Arctic Equipment, and conformal body armor, and supply chain and inventory management software, low signature infrared equipment, and Development of and other Organizational Clothing and Individual Equipment driven by Combatant Command Theater requirements

FY2026 to FY2027 change Nominal decrease due to fluctuation in requirement changes.

FY2026 plans — current year FY26 funds Mobility Bag development, test, and evaluation of Department of the Air Force organizational clothing and individual equipment. Develops Extreme Cold Weather Boots, Arctic Equipment, and conformal body armor, and other Organizational Clothing and Individual Equipment driven by Combatant Command Theater requirements. Additionally, this effort funds development of supply chain and inventory management software.

Congressional action

Congressional marks

Committee marks on the FY2027 request. Adds and cuts are reconciled in conference before they become law.

RequestPresident's Budget
$0.9M
House NDAA (HASC)HASC
$0.9M full · +$0
Senate NDAA (SASC)SASC
$0.9M full · +$0
House Approps (HAC-D)HAC_D
$0.9M full · +$0
unresolved as of 2026-07-27. These are FY2027 authorization marks (NDAA); appropriations and the conference agreement may differ.
Who's building it

Where the FY2027 request goes

Performers named in the R-3 exhibit, resolved into industry, government-lab, and unspecified shares. Budget-justification contract funding, not obligations.

Where FY2027 funding flowsShare$M
Other / unspecified100%0.9
FY2027 request100%0.9
Program detail

Mission & acquisition strategy

Enterprise Select Class II (formerly Combat Ready Airman) provides resources to perform lead command roles and responsibilities and includes requirements management, test & evaluation, assurance of operational safety, suitability, and effectiveness. This effort is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P), because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.

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Project 64712R — Combat Ready Airmen (CRA) - RDT&E
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FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibits R-2 / R-3 · PE 0701200F (President's Budget PB2027) — and FY2027 NDAA committee marks, as tracked 2026-07-27.
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