What project S200 buys
This project provides for rapid prototyping, Advanced Technology Demonstrations (ATDs) and Joint Capability Technology Demonstrations. It is a means for demonstrating and evaluating the utility of emerging/advanced technologies in operationally relevant environments with Special Operations Forces (SOF) users. This project integrates disruptive solutions and emerging technologies and then presents them in technology demonstrations, in conjunction with joint experiments and other assessment events. Evaluation results often facilitate the initiation of new programs and the insertion of appropriate technologies to acquisition programs. This project leverages key stakeholder relationships with the Department of Defense and government technology developers to address unique, joint special mission or area-specific needs for which a few rapid prototypes must be developed on a responsive basis, or of sufficient time sensitivity to accelerate prototyping efforts of a normal acquisition program in any phase.
Project S200 funding, 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. Projects carry the full five-year plan; the activities inside them stop at the budget year.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 161.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 158.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 109.6 |
| FY2028 | Outyear | 88.8 |
| FY2029 | Outyear | 90.5 |
| FY2030 | Outyear | 92.3 |
| FY2031 | Outyear | 94.1 |
3 accomplishments / planned programs
The R-2A exhibit — the only level of the budget that describes work that has not happened yet. Activities carry the prior, current and budget year only, no five-year plan. 2 of them describe FY2027 work in enough detail to have their own page; the rest are shown here in full. Coverage is partial across the corpus, so count activities, never total them.
Continue the development and insertion of technology into existing programs. Technologies include but are not limited to: scalable and precision effects; command and control systems; battlespace awareness capabilities; Sensor-fusion with AI/large language models; tailorable secure network fabric/agile scalable swarms; multi-domain…
Read the FY2027 plan →Efforts in FY 2027 will focus on completing the HSVTOL demonstration platform's development, achieving airworthiness certification, and transitioning from critical design activities to the manufacturing and final assembly of the demonstration vehicle. Key activities will include the completion of final Software Integration Lab…
Read the FY2027 plan →FY2027 planned work Details provided under separate cover.
FY2026 to FY2027 change Details for increase of $1.877 million provided under separate cover. Sub-project is reported in accordance with Title 10, United States Code, Section 119(a)(1), in the Special Access Program Annual Report to Congress.
FY2026 plans — current year Details provided under separate cover.
FY2025 accomplishments Details provided under separate cover.