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. MRLA FY2027 funding will include but not limited to the purchase of test kits/assets, software integration, coding, development and lab testing, airworthiness evaluation, initiation of the nuclear certification process, initiation of the Seek Eagle process, and initial test planning.
Increase for purchase of test assets and continuation of 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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 167.1 |
This activity is 40% of project 675345's FY2027 request and 40% 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.