What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project SF100 of PE 1160403BB. 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.
Continues developing foundational open system Human Autonomy Common Control Architecture (HACCAr) for phase three delivery providing initial operational capability for a new human-machine interface (HMI) to enable simultaneous, multi-platform control. Continues integration efforts for A2E autonomy to enable small UAS (sUAS) behaviors without direct command and control inputs allowing operations in contested and denied environments. Continues development and integration of platforms (Air Launched Effects (ALE), Swarm Carrier (SC), and Signature Managed (SM)). Continues payload development and integration into sUAS platforms to provide extended ISR/Kinetic/NKE capabilities from SOF crewed and uncrewed aircraft.
Increase of $63.145 million supports development and integration efforts in each of the three A2E lines of effort (LOE) including: Platforms - $25.221 million increase supports development, integration and test efforts for Group 2 Air Launched Effects (ALE), Group 3 Swarm Carrier (SC), and Group 3 Signature Managed (SM) capabilities required to enable layered airborne effects (ISR/Kinetic/Non-Kinetic) in contested and denied battlespace; HMI - $20.348 million increase is required to transition from Initial Operational Capability (IOC) to Full Operating Capability (FOC) for HMI development of phase III capabilities to include integration efforts into ALE, SC, and SM. Autonomy - $7.250 million increase for software development and integration efforts into ALE, SC, SM; and SO-p pods; and $3.226 million increase in engineering and analysis support and a $7.100 million increase in engineering test and evaluation activities.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 46.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 63.1 |
This activity is 50% of project SF100's FY2027 request and 29% of PE 1160403BB'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 SF100
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.