What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 4035 of PE 0204229N. 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.
JMEWS planned activities include Transition to Production (TTP) activities to complete EMD phase, Ground Launch Flight Tests (GLFT), System Verification Review, and Production Readiness Review (PRR) which includes delivery of the manufacturing plan of hardware to support Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP).
No significant change FY 2026 to FY 2027
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.
JMEWS planned activities include EMD phase and Flight Testing. Transition to production efforts will begin, including Ground Launch Flight Tests (GLFT), preparations for Production Readiness Review (PRR), and development of manufacturing plan of hardware to be used in Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) and Full Rate Production (FRP) activities.
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 | 32.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 16.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 15.2 |
This activity is 100% of project 4035's FY2027 request and 20% of PE 0204229N'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.
1 activity in project 4035
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.