What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project SF101 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 to assess concepts and prototypes that provide increased capability of SOF mobility platforms to include improvements to meet emerging threats. Assesses and evaluates advanced methods to deliver scalable and precision effects. Identifies, assesses, and evaluates improved multi-domain communications and computers that incorporate significant improvements to operate in contested environments, systems that improve situational awareness on the battlefield, and disruptive technologies to enable ISR in future environments. Continues to assess materials, concepts, and prototypes to increase operator effectiveness and situational awareness in all environments. Continues engineering analysis activities to improve SOF platform mission survivability. Activities include enhanced data source correlation capability to improve SA and improve platform survivability, AI enabled ISR targeting and counterintelligence, track correlation software to reduce duplicate object tracks on a display, and versatile mission equipment (payloads, communications, and weapons) to improve SOF survivability in less than permissive operating environments.
Decrease of $2.136 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 to assess concepts and prototypes that provide increased capability of SOF mobility platforms to include improvements to meet emerging threats. Assesses and evaluates advanced methods to deliver scalable and precision effects. Identifies, assesses, and evaluates improved multi-domain communications and computers that incorporate significant improvements to operate in contested environments, systems that improve situational awareness on the battlefield, and disruptive technologies to enable ISR in future environments. Continues to assess materials, concepts, and prototypes to increase operator effectiveness and situational awareness in all environments. Continues engineering analysis activities to improve SOF platform mission survivability. Activities include enhanced data source correlation capability to improve SA and improve platform survivability, AI enabled ISR targeting and counterintelligence, track correlation software to reduce duplicate object tracks on a display, and versatile mission equipment (payloads, communications, and weapons) to improve SOF survivability in less than permissive operating environments.
Continue to assess concepts and prototypes that provide increased capability of SOF mobility platforms to include improvements to meet emerging threats. Assesses and evaluates advanced methods to deliver scalable and precision effects. Identifies, assesses, and evaluates improved network and data management systems multi-domain communications and computers that incorporate significant improvements to operate in contested environments, systems that improve situational awareness on the battlefield, and disruptive technologies to enable ISR in future environments. Continue to assess materials, concepts, and prototypes to increase operator effectiveness and situational awareness in all environments. Continue engineering analysis activities to improve SOF platform mission survivability. Activities include signature management (acoustic, infrared, radio frequency), situational awareness with full spectrum threat warning and countermeasures, and versatile mission equipment (payloads, communications, and weapons) to improve SOF survivability in less than permissive operating environments.
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 | 12.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.0 |
This activity is 61% of project SF101's FY2027 request and 7.9% 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 SF101
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.