What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 672671 of PE 0207133F. 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.
Funding supports the fielding of M8.2 and begin the development for M8.3. M8.2 OFP will include the following major candidates: AESA phase III, Comm Suite upgrade, JASSM Dynamic Targeting Phase II, MIDS-JTRS queuing Enhanced Data Link (EDL) while maintaining and upgrading portions of the SIL to the M8.2 OFP baseline. Continuing to refractory code for M7.X to M8.X, and modifying SILs, for M7.X baseline to support Software coding validation process. Also supports the completion of the development, test, and fielding of SCU 15.X and begins the development on SCU 16.X to include but not limited to the following candidates: continued LRASM integration, Miniature Air-Launched Decoy - Jammer (MALD-J), Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) II integration. Develop requirements via Agile Software Development pipeline and continuing upgrading portions of the SIL to the M8 OFP baseline. Execute secure data management/cloud services for storage of large amounts of flight test/operational data to allow rapid agile OFP software fixes to meet crucial operational CONUS and OCONUS needs. Integrate Cyber defense into DevSecOps/Agile OFP development and acceptance test software integration Laboratory (SIL) stand-up. Purchases test weapons LRASM, JASSM B3, and SiAW for technology integration for 5th and 6th Gen Fighters (2+ year lead-time).
Increase of $41.522M from FY26 to FY27 reflects program increase for Advanced Weapons technology integration for 5th/6th Gen Fighters, includes but not limited to AARGM-ER/SiAW, JASSM, and LRASM (buys, integration, testing). Additionally, increase for testing and fielding M8.2 & SCU 14 and development of M8.3 & SCU 16 along with corresponding SIL upgrades to include stand-up of new capabilities/toolsets, software integration and test equipment buys.
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.
Funding supports the stability resolutions for fielding of M8.2 and creating a second baseline (re-release) for M7.4 for wartime rapid capability fielding to include but not limited to the following candidates: UON Weapon X, JSM, ERAM, LRASM, JDAM-ER, JASSM, SiAW, AARGM-ER, SMDS hardware fielding, advanced processing integration, remote interface panel, MIDS-J Block Upgrade-3 (BU3) insertion, MUOS data addition. Continuing to refractory code for M7.X to M8.X, and modifying SILs, for M7.X baseline to support Software coding validation process. Also supports the completion of the development, test, and fielding of SCU 14.X and begins the development on SCU 15.X to include but not limited to the following candidates: continued LRASM integration, Miniature Air-Launched Decoy - Jammer (MALD-J), Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) II integration. Develop requirements via Agile Software Development pipeline and continuing upgrading portions of the SIL to the M8 OFP baseline. Execute secure data management/cloud services for storage of large amounts of flight test/operational data to allow rapid agile OFP software fixes to meet crucial operational CONUS and OCONUS needs. Integrate Cyber defense into DevSecOps/Agile OFP development and acceptance test software integration Laboratory (SIL) stand-up. Purchases test weapons LRASM, JASSM B3, AARGM-ER and SiAW for technology integration for 5th and 6th Gen Fighters (1-3+ year lead-times).
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 | 84.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 138.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 180.3 |
This activity is 34% of project 672671's FY2027 request and 34% of PE 0207133F'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.
9 activities in project 672671
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.