What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project E25 of PE 0708045A. 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.
Continue addressing advanced manufacturing processes for high-performance / lower-weight armor materials for Army platforms and ramp up efforts focused on manufacturing advanced systems for ground platforms. Continue effort to reduce RDX production requirements for the MICLIC to improve manufacturability and effectiveness while reducing cost. Initiate efforts to reduce manufacturing costs and lead times for electronic components for ground platforms.
The increase in funding reflects ongoing efforts to reduce RDX production requirements for the MICLIC to improve manufacturability and effectiveness while reducing cost, reduce manufacturing costs and lead times for electronic components for ground platforms, and address advanced manufacturing processes for high-performance / lower-weight armor materials for ground platforms.
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.
Continue addressing advanced manufacturing processes for high-performance / lower-weight armor materials for Army platforms and ramp up efforts focused on manufacturing advanced systems for ground platforms. Continue effort to reduce RDX production requirements for the Mine-Clearing Line Charge (MICLIC) to improve manufacturability and effectiveness while reducing cost.
Program plans will continue efforts advancing digital thread capabilities and addressing advanced manufacturing processes for high performance / lower weight armor materials. Ramp up the development of manufacturing processes for advanced systems for ground platforms.
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 | 15.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 17.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 25.8 |
This activity is 38% of project E25's FY2027 request and 38% of PE 0708045A'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.
5 activities in project E25
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.