What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3097 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.
- Execute systems engineering and integration at SWS-level including requirements management, architecture integration, verification and validation, and coordinated interface analyses for W93/Mk7. - Support major system-level milestone reviews. - Conduct Weapon System Impact reviews and analyses including Strategic Weapons System Program Alterations (SPALTs), Ship Alterations (SHIPALTs), Temporary Alterations (TEMPALTs), and Technical Requirements and Interface Documents (TRIDs) for Coordination, Cabling, and Data Requirements impacts. - Maintain coordination engineering while providing Data Requirements engineering and documentation. - Support Mk7 accuracy performance analysis including accuracy trade studies, flight analysis, development of Mk7 data-derived models, and U.S. Planning Factors development. - Develop and modify Initial Processing (IP) and Performance Evaluation (PE) Software to support Mk7 deployment and convert flight instrumentation data to common analysis format. - Create modernized data architecture to accelerate Mk7 accuracy analysis. - Conduct employment engineering analyses including use case development, requirements analysis, mission effectiveness assessments for warfighter utility, and threat mitigation evaluations.
The requested $12.29 million funding increase is required to transition the Mk7 program from milestone design reviews to full SWS-level integration. This FY 2027 funding will support comprehensive weapon system impact analyses, multi-platform coordination engineering, and the development of a modernized data architecture to accelerate accuracy analysis. Key activities include completing pre- and post-flight analysis for FCET-9 while initiating planning for FCET-10. The funding also enables critical employment engineering studies and prepares data retention systems for future USSTRATCOM reliability reporting.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
- Execute a comprehensive SWS Preliminary Design Review (PDR) in FY 2026 to rigorously assess the design's maturity and readiness for detailed design. - Conduct ongoing system-level trade studies to evaluate alternative design options and assess their impact on overall system performance, cost, and schedule. - Initiate software development activities to create the necessary tools and simulations for conducting comprehensive system-level evaluations. - Develop software modules to model the behavior of various system components and simulate their interactions under different operating conditions. - Implement robust data acquisition and analysis capabilities to collect and process data from system-level evaluations, providing valuable insights into system performance. - Achieve Milestone B.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 7.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 36.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 48.6 |
This activity is 5.8% of project 3097's FY2027 request and 4.6% 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.
5 activities in project 3097
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.