What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1982 of PE 0204571N. 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 hardware and software research and development activities for peer threat representative models, hardware development activities for Infrared Search and Track (IRST), as well as integration of existing onboard combat systems into the RedNet architecture. Development and integration testing of continuous software solutions and prototypes for both classified tablet and Red Mission server developmental efforts.
Decrease of $4.838M from FY2026 to FY2027 is due to POM27 Aviation Portfolio, Reallocation of RAND study payback ($1.2M) and other realignments.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue program activities and conduct Systems Requirements and Systems Functional Reviews (SRR/SFR) for Nonembedded Aircraft Processing Systems. Continue hardware and software research and development activities. Complete design reviews for Nonembedded Aircraft Processing Systems (Red Mission Server). Continue hardware and software research and development activities for peer threat representative models (EA, RF, IR...)
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 5.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 15.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.4 |
This activity is 100% of project 1982's FY2027 request and 9.0% of PE 0204571N'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 1982
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.