What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 675039 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.
Engineering & Manufacturing Development (EMD) for AWWP is the key for all future heavy-weight weapon capabilities for the B-52. FY2027 will address Pre-acquisition activities to structure the integration of a GFE weapon onto the AWWP. The AWWP will design, develop, integrate and field a new pylon onto the B-52 to take advantage of increased mass provided to the battlefield. Specifically, the current pylons carry limited weapons (i.e. 6x JASSM each) at limited weight, where AWWP will increase carriage capacity in both weight and amount (i.e. 8x JASSM each). FY27 plans will include detailed analysis on requirements, systems engineering, and manufacturing to start acquiring increased capability on the B-52 as well as begin contracting activities for an immediate acquisition for all 76 B-52 tails.
Increase for additional weapons analysis and integration
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 30.0 |
This activity is 24% of project 675039's FY2027 request and 2.0% 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.
6 activities in project 675039
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.