What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 675129 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.
Continue execution of the Post-CDR Development contract. Continue ordering hardware for two test aircraft on material contracts and deliver necessary components to modify the aircraft. Continue F130 engine integration testing. Begin modification of test aircraft.
Funding increase due to transition from design to aircraft modification. Transition involves reassigning personnel to support Post-CDR Development contract and prepare for flight test. FY 2026 funding request lower than requirements to correct prior carry-over.
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.
Complete all subsystem Critical Design Reviews (CDR) culminating in System CDR. Begin execution of the Post- CDR Development contract. Continue ordering hardware for two test aircraft on material contracts and deliver necessary components to modify the aircraft. Stand up the test aircraft modification facility. Continue F130 engine integration testing.
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 | 753.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 595.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 998.6 |
This activity is 100% of project 675129's FY2027 request and 68% 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 675129
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.