What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2189 of PE 0205601N. 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.
FY 2027 activities include continuation of EMD efforts (completion of the integration and test of the M-Code/Guidance Processor redesign; addition of two GP Redesign Software DT/IT Live Fire Flight Test Events; additional procurement of test assets; F-35 UAI development effort; F-35 integration effort; NOMS integration; initial Stations 2/10 integration efforts; completion of Virtual Stores; and correction of deficiencies discovered during test) and additional Operational Test events in FY 2027 to support OPTEV direction due to software deficiencies and to increase confidence in tactical engagements, as well as support Fleet fielding recommendation.
Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 to fund the continuation of EMD efforts (completion of the integration and test of the M-Code/Guidance Processor redesign; addition of two GP Redesign Software DT/IT Live Fire Flight Test Events; additional procurement of test assets; F-35 UAI development effort; F-35 integration effort; NOMS integration; initial Stations 2/10 integration efforts; completion of Virtual Stores; and correction of deficiencies discovered during test) and additional Operational Test events in FY 2027 to support OPTEV direction due to software deficiencies and to increase confidence in tactical engagements, as well as support Fleet fielding recommendation.
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.
FY 2026 activities include continuation of the Engineering and Manufacturing Development contract, integration and test of the M-Code/Guidance Processor redesign and maturation of efforts required to reach Initial Operational Capability (IOC).
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 | 16.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 19.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 67.8 |
This activity is 94% of project 2189's FY2027 request and 84% of PE 0205601N'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.
4 activities in project 2189
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.