What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 676009 of PE 0901226F. 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.
Enhance priorities identified by the Joint AFSIM governance structure. Continue agile development and deployment of Golden Dome common model box-sets. Bolster modeling of electromagnetic spectrum interactions and address compute resource scaling challenges. Optimize AFSIM resource management and deployment on cloud compute resources through software containerization, single thread to multi-thread parallelization, computational efficiency schema, and optimization human-machine graphical user interface with low-code functionality. Continue to enhance AFSIM utility for logistics and agile combat support capabilities based on Air Mobility Command's Modeling and Simulation Modernization Strategy.
Increase due to OSW FY27 activities and inflation factor. FY27 funding increase integrates OSW R&E's Mission Engineering Integration Activity with AFSIM capabilities, adding multiple additional domains of warfare to the simulation environment and improving the real-world resolution of the model sets.
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.
Enhance priorities identified by the Joint AFSIM governance structure. Continue development of Golden Dome/ Homeland Defense box-set of common models, scenarios, and data. Enhance space satellite Electro-Optical/ Infra-Red multi-fidelity sensors, command and control capabilities, and other space-orbital warfare related capabilities. Transition Artificial Intelligence model/scenario assistance tool from USSF to Enterprise level. Continue support in collaboration with DARPA and AFRL on one-way attack / autonomous UAV, collaborative combat aircraft, and advanced munitions. Continue FY25 effort AFSIM with the Joint Simulation Environment (JSE). Initiate development of AFSIM logistics and agile combat support capabilities based on FY25 Air Mobility Command's Modeling and Simulation Modernization Strategy.
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 | 7.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 8.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 17.0 |
This activity is 21% of project 676009's FY2027 request and 21% of PE 0901226F'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.
6 activities in project 676009
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.