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 development, integration and qualification of the LITENING Artemis Targeting Pod Type 179 Laser. Planned activities include execution of a Critical Design Review (CDR) and updates to software, firmware and system design resulting from that review. Funding will also support procurement of mass mock-up hardware to support laser fit checks, qualification and design verification efforts. Funding will support procurement of hardware to complete a total quantity of 3 lasers for integration and qualification testing into the Artemis Pod(s). FY27 funding to continue development, integration and test of Advanced Tactical Data Fusion System (ATDFS). Phase 1 development will incorporate a new algorithm replacing and modernizing MSR. Phase 2 of ATDFS will continue development for an MSI air to air sensor and source data replacement.
FY2026 to FY2027 increase of $5.914M due to increased Artemis efforts for software development in support of the new algorithm.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue development, integration and test of Advanced Tactical Data Fusion System (ATDFS). Phase 1 development will incorporate a new algorithm replacing and modernizing MSR. Phase 2 of ATDFS will continue development for an MSI air to air sensor and source data replacement.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 51.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 53.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 59.2 |
This activity is 23% of project 1662's FY2027 request and 22% 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.