What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 676020 of PE 0207134F. 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 and integrate single-band SATCOM apertures and terminals with aircraft systems and modify aircraft software (operational flight profile) to enable integration and sharing of data in accordance with DAF Battle Network architecture in an open architecture implementation. Conduct test & evaluation activities (systems integration laboratory, fit checks, ground testing, developmental flight test and associated airworthiness certifications)
Non-recurring engineering begins to ramp down as program nears test jet install and flight test.
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.
Develop and integrate single-band SATCOM apertures and terminals with aircraft systems and modify aircraft software (operational flight profile) to enable integration and sharing of data in accordance with DAF Battle Network architecture in an open architecture implementation. Conduct test & evaluation activities (systems integration laboratory, fit checks, ground testing, developmental flight test and associated airworthiness certifications)
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 | 22.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.6 |
This activity is 4.2% of project 676020's FY2027 request and 4.2% of PE 0207134F'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.
5 activities in project 676020
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.