What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1662 of PE 0204136N. 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.
Continue conducting flight test, engineering development and integration of DVMC-U Minimum Viable Product (MVP) on Advanced Cockpit System (ACS) equipped F/A-18E/F and EA-18G. ACS and DVMC-U, coupled with other F/A-18E/F and EA-18G weapon system capability improvements, enable incremental upgrades providing for continued tactical advantage over the life of the F/A-18E/F and EA-18G.
FY2026 to FY2027 decrease of $15.093M due to descoped software efforts no longer included in DVMC-U.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue engineering development and integration of DVMC-U Minimum Viable Product (MVP) on Advanced Cockpit System (ACS) equipped F/A-18E/F and EA-18G. ACS and DVMC-U, coupled with other F/A-18E/F and EA-18G weapon system capability improvements, enable incremental upgrades providing for continued tactical advantage over the life of the F/A-18E/F and EA-18G.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 22.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 29.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.7 |
This activity is 5.7% of project 1662's FY2027 request and 5.4% of PE 0204136N'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 1662
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.