What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 671803 of PE 0101113F. 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.
Will continue to provide funding for the test aircraft, manpower, BMDAS, and facilities at the Air Force Test Center, Edwards AFB. This will support the developmental testing, facility, and sustainment needs of the B-52 test assets.
The increase in funding from FY26 to FY27 is driven by the requirement to sustain the test aircraft with RDT&E funds at Edwards AFB and other locations including parts, labor, and support.
FY2026: the year under way
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.
Will continue to provide funding for the test aircraft, manpower, BMDAS, and facilities at the Air Force Test Center, Edwards AFB. This will support the developmental testing, facility, and sustainment needs of the B-52.
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 | 1.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 1.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.8 |
This activity is 100% of project 671803's FY2027 request and 0.7% of PE 0101113F'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.
1 activity in project 671803
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.