What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 675345 of PE 0101127F. 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.
This is not a FY2027 new start. Development of additional capabilities through further aircraft integration, hardware, software upgrades and testing to include technical data required for permanent TCTO roll on/roll off modification and sustainment planning for version 2.0 EMD efforts.
Increase in funding for incremental development approach to transition prototype into EMD effort.
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.
This effort was initiated by Congressionally approved spend plan for the Congressional add titled "NC3 Modernization and Golden Dome Initiatives"
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 | 17.3 |
This activity is 4.1% of project 675345's FY2027 request and 4.1% of PE 0101127F'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.
12 activities in project 675345
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.