# B-2 Digital High Frequency (HF) Communications

**R-2A activity** of project 675345 — B-2 Modernization  
**Program element:** 0101127F — B-2 Squadrons  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force · **Budget Activity:** 7  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0101127F/675345/a11  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0101127F/675345

> **NEW START.** $17.3M requested in FY2027 with no prior-year and no current-year funding.

## Summary

This activity requests $17.3M in FY2027, 4.1% of project 675345 — a new start with no prior-year and no current-year money. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** Increase in funding for incremental development approach to transition prototype into EMD effort.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** This effort was initiated by Congressionally approved spend plan for the Congressional add titled "NC3 Modernization and Golden Dome Initiatives"

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 17.3 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 675345

- [Modular Rotary Launcher Assembly (MRLA)](https://hitchintel.com/programs/0101127F/675345/a7) — FY2027 167.1
- Expanded Strike — FY2027 90.3
- Radar Modernization — FY2027 80.0
- Global Lightning / Hybrid SATCOM — FY2027 34.1
- MGUE (Military GPS User Equipment) — FY2027 12.5
- Flight Test (Baseline Support) — FY2027 9.6
- Low Observable Signature and Supportability Mods and Trainers — FY2027 6.3
- B-2 Advanced Communications -- B-2 Battlespace Collaborative Combat Communications (B2C3) — FY2027 0.9
- B-2 Trainers Modernization — FY2027 0.0
- B-2 Advanced Communications -- Adaptable Communications Suite (ACS) 4.0 — FY2027 0.0
- B-2 Display Modernization (BDM) — FY2027 0.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0101127F project 675345 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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