What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2228 of PE 0101221N. 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.
All efforts will continue from FY 2026 in addition to: - Begin the development of a Compact Boost Rocket Motor Chemical Sensor (CBRMCS) for advanced health monitoring to collect data and infer stabilizer content from the propellant in a solid rocket motor assembly - Begin enhancements for Missile Segment Mating in the Missile Assembly Building (MAB) to accelerate and reduce manning by developing a control system that consolidates position control for a single user with more intuitive controls - Begin the integration of prototype sensor payloads on the Autonomous Launch Area Support Ship (ATLASS) to enable a hybrid human-machine launch area CONOP, with the goal of reducing reliance on legacy LASS ships and increasing testing tempo - Begin the development of an Expeditionary Launch Area Buoy (ELAB), a Flight Test Instrumentation Buoy with more expansive capabilities, to replace the existing tactical comms buoy with the goal of increasing test tempo while maintaining range safety - Begin the development of a Joint A-DAS & High Speed Boost and Midcourse Telemetry Program for FCET-10, a fused data acquisition system that incorporates flight test data, environmental sensor data, and high-speed video to enable the collection of more extensive and higher resolution test data - Begin the validation of advanced non-destructive evaluation (NDE) tools for the D5 Motor Static Firing to enable motor life extension and shift from time-based to condition-based maintenance - Begin the characterization of Trident Reentry Body aerodynamics and plasma by leveraging previously funded Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) efforts, inserting three SBIR-developed sensors into the Enhanced Inert Head (EIH) test body to collect data and reduce uncertainty around fuze and telemetry blackout windows - Additional details held at a higher classification level
The requested $14.889 million increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is required to enhance naval asset reliability and operational readiness. This funding accelerates the fielding of new capabilities and extends the life of current assets by increasing flight test tempo and improving system monitoring. Key initiatives include developing advanced health monitoring sensors and non-destructive evaluation tools for motor life extension, while autonomous vessels, new buoy systems, and streamlined missile assembly processes will increase test tempo. Additionally, a fused data acquisition system and new reentry body sensors will gather more extensive data, reducing future test requirements. Additional details are held at a higher classification level.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
- SWS Data Integration & Analytics: Standardize and integrate data sources related to SWS maintenance and repair by utilizing existing data washing techniques to accelerate decision-making and enhance predictive maintenance capabilities - Enhanced Telemetry: Prototype the use of alternative telemetry data transmission methods for high-data-rate sensors on reentry bodies - Additional details held at a higher classification level
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 6.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 21.3 |
This activity is 10% of project 2228's FY2027 request and 2.0% of PE 0101221N'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 2228
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.