What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project S200 of PE 1160402BB. 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 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 emplacement and access; ML Enhancements on the Obstacle Avoidance Sonar; and technologies that reduce Operator load. Continues development of field prototypes incorporating technologies likely to transition to fielded systems, supporting the USSOCOM focus on modernization.
Decrease of $0.520 million reflects the strategic reallocation of resources to support USSOCOM evolving priorities.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continues the development and insertion of technology into existing programs. Technologies include but are not limited to: scalable and precision effects; command and control systems; battlespace awareness capabilities; Sensor-fusion with Artificial Intelligence(AI)I/large language models; tailorable secure network fabric/agile scalable swarms; multi-domain emplacement and access; Machine Learning (ML) Enhancements on the Obstacle Avoidance Sonar; and technologies that reduce Operator load. Continues development of field prototypes incorporating technologies likely to transition to fielded systems, supporting the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) focus on modernization.
Continue the development and insertion of technology into existing programs. Technologies include but are not limited to: scalable and precision effects; command and control systems; capability specific machine learning/artificial intelligence algorithms; sensors; multi-domain emplacement and access; situational awareness tools; and technologies that reduce the load of the operator. Continue development of field prototypes incorporating technologies likely to transition to fielded systems, supporting the United States Special Operations Command focus on modernization.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 75.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 75.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 75.3 |
This activity is 69% of project S200's FY2027 request and 60% of PE 1160402BB'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 S200
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.