What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2530 of PE 0206623M. 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.
- Initiate the integration of autonomous capabilities to include Beyond Line of Site communication, Landing Zone Evaluation and Obstacle Avoidance, to enhance the operational safety and mission effectiveness of MARV-EL - Begin contractor flight testing of the MARV-EL prototype solutions
The decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 aligns with the completion of MARV-EL shipboard capability development utilizing TRUAS as a surrogate air vehicle.
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.
- Initiated MARV-EL Air Vehicle Development - Completed shipboard capability development for MARV-EL utilizing TRUAS as a surrogate air vehicle - Continued development of capabilities/technological areas common across the Family of Systems, to include C2 and Autonomy packages.
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 | 10.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 17.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.0 |
This activity is 67% of project 2530's FY2027 request and 13% of PE 0206623M'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 2530
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.