What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 656009 of PE 0207110F. 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 to develop, integrate, build, and test F-47 aircraft during EMD and associated lab infrastructure design and build. Other program activities include the pursuit of open architecture solutions and the design, build, and test of components and full weapon systems. The F-47 program will continue to conduct analyses, perform concept refinements, and studies required to develop operational/system architectures to include family of systems and spectral dominance platforms.
Funding increased in FY 2027 due to development of increased capabilities for F-47.
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.
Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) activities include development, integration, build, and test of F-47 aircraft and associated lab infrastructure design and build. Other program activities include the pursuit of open architecture solutions and the design, build, and test of components and full weapon systems. The F-47 program will continue to conduct analyses, identify technology candidates, perform concept refinements, and studies required to develop operational/system architectures to include family of systems and spectral dominance platforms.
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 | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 2,553.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 5,037.9 |
This activity is 100% of project 656009's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0207110F'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 656009
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.