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.
Continuation of M8.2.7 DT/OT for Rehost of OFP, HRPDG and APX-127(V)1. DT/OT for Support for F-16 OFP SCU 15 and M8.3, DT/OT flight test of cybersecurity upgrades, VENOM, IVEWS, MMC, PDG, HSDN, and SMDS with A-GCAS OT. Continuation of integration of Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range (AARGM-ER). Integration of Stand-in Attack Weapon (SiAW). Integration of additional weapons. Integration of Ethernet Switch Upgrade and Sensor Integration Unit (SIU). Integration of advanced radar capabilities. Initial and continued DT/OT of F-16 M8.3 OFP enabling Ethernet, Composite Stab, Resilient-Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial (R-EGI) as well as various hardware subsystem upgrades. DT for Brake Controller System (BCS), Advanced Programmable Signal Processor (APSP), and Digital flight Control Computer (DFLCC) power supply. Instrumentation updates for APG-83 and ethernet testing equipment.
Decrease of $9.927M from FY26 to FY27 reflects adjustment after backlog of weapons and instrumentation buys needed to support test efforts completed in FY26.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Completion of F-16 SCU 13 OT, SCU 14 DT/OT and M-Series 7.4 re-release DT/OT. Completion of SMDS with A-GCAS DT. Continuation of M8.2.5, M8.2.6 and M8.2.7 DT/OT for Rehost of OFP, HRPDG and APX-127(V)1. DT for Support for F-16 OFP DT/OT flight test of cybersecurity upgrades, VENOM, IVEWS, MMC, PDG, HSDN, and SMDS with A-GCAS OT. Continuation of integration of Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range (AARGM-ER). DT for Brake Controller System (BCS), Advanced Programmable Signal Processor (APSP), and Digital flight Control Computer (DFLCC) power supply. Significant instrumentation re-design and installation for aged Flight Sciences aircraft for SEEK EAGLE DT to enable F-16 SEEK EAGLE certification requirements DT. Significant weapons and instrumentation buys to include AIM-120 TM, JASSM WPN & TM, GBU-39 FTV, etc.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 6.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 35.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 25.4 |
This activity is 4.8% of project 672671's FY2027 request and 4.8% 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.