What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project S100 of PE 1160401BB. 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.
Continued ongoing technology development projects in areas such as, but not limited to: advances in lightweight materials, pulse laser technologies, adversarial artificial intelligence, technologies for combat medical equipment, human performance, sensors, information to create effects, improved human-machine interfaces and displays, SOF operations in an ubiquitous environment, and secure communications.
A $1.446 million decrease reflects the transfer of funds to SOF Brain Health in fiscal year 2027, following an increased focus on protecting and improving SOF Operator Brain Health.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue ongoing technology development projects in areas such as, but not limited to: advances in lightweight materials, pulse laser technologies, adversarial artificial intelligence, technologies for combat medical equipment, human performance, sensors, information to create effects, improved human-machine interfaces and displays, SOF operations in an ubiquitous environment, and secure communications.
Continue ongoing technology development projects in areas such as, but not limited to: advances in lightweight materials, technologies for combat medical equipment, human performance, sensors, information to create effects, improved human-machine interfaces and displays, capability specific machine learning/artificial intelligence algorithms, and secure communications.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 42.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 40.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 39.2 |
This activity is 77% of project S100's FY2027 request and 77% of PE 1160401BB'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.
3 activities in project S100
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.