What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 9C89 of PE 0204460M. 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.
- Complete Mode S development. - Continue the development and integration of software and hardware capability enhancements.
No significant changes from FY 2026 to FY 2027. FY 2027 funds enhance both radar and force survivability in a Peer/Near-Peer Competitor environment through the development and integration of software and hardware required to implement Warfighter desired USMC Force Design capability enhancements.
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 Mode S development. - Continue NCTR software development. - Continue the development and integration of software to implement NIFC.
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 | 23.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 11.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.7 |
This activity is 18% of project 9C89's FY2027 request and 18% of PE 0204460M'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 9C89
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 program-element page.