What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project S710 of PE 1160431BB. 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 investments in agile software developments to deliver quarterly software updates of Nyx, the next generation of aviation mission planning software, to SOF aviators. Delivers Nyx capability to support all aircraft within USSOCOM. Continues development and delivery of SOF-peculiar Tactical Assault Kit (TAK) software plug-ins to support dynamic and emergent SOF ground and maritime operational requirements and extend SOF data to the tactical edge in support of Integrated Deterrence. Continues FY 2026 Production OTA award efforts increasing TAK software plug-in interoperability with end user device sensors and reducing cognitive load on edge users allowing for context driven decisions at tactical Edge. Continues supporting exercise and limited objective test events.
Increase of $1.335 million increase in SOF Tactical Assault Kit (TAK) Development to support integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled TAK plugin development to decrease the cognitive burden on the operator at the edge, increasing decision speed and accuracy.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue investments in agile software developments to deliver quarterly software updates of Nyx, the next generation of aviation mission planning software, to SOF aviators. Deliver Nyx capability to support all aircraft within USSOCOM. Continue development and delivery of SOF-peculiar Tactical Assault Kit (TAK) software plug-ins to support dynamic and emergent SOF ground and maritime operational requirements and extend SOF data to the tactical edge in support of Integrated Deterrence. Continue supporting exercise and limited objective test events. Initiate Production OTA award for TAK specific plugin development and enhanced AI/ML capabilities for edge devices.
Continue investment in agile software development and user centered design events to facilitate regular delivery throughout the Fiscal Year (FY) of new software capabilities for user evaluation and feedback and operational deployment. Continue exercise and limited objective test event support based on dynamic and emergent operational requirements.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 19.8 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 19.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 20.9 |
This activity is 41% of project S710's FY2027 request and 4.8% of PE 1160431BB'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 S710
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.