What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 674785 of PE 0207138F. 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.
Provide support to the System Integration Laboratories (SILs) for faster testing and assessment of F-22 enhancements. Continue to update critical systems required to support new aircraft configurations and capabilities. Continue Lab test planning using agile methods for all F-22 Acquisition Categories (ACAT) programs. Continue to update critical systems to include technology refresh and laboratory optimization improvements. Small projects continue transformational projects through technology planning studies and demonstrations for DT weapon assets, threat modeling support, test support, DT aircraft modifications, cyber security, engine enhancements, instrumentation and crowd sourced flight data system, DMSMS development, TE-RECCS integration, Cockpit tablet / OSA integration / OSE / OMS, and other advanced capability projects to improve the effectiveness of the F-22. Provide development and integration activities to produce a F-22 IAB product that can meet both test and training requirements in a high fidelity, life-like environment. Continue maturing agile software and hardware development best practices and tools to increase the speed and quality of product delivery to the warfighter.
Increase of $1.177 million from FY2026 to FY2027 reflects design and delivery of multiple sets of special test equipment required for capability upgrades and OFP air worthiness certification. In addition, it supports the test aircraft modifications, and increased capacity and throughput for labs and test operations, improving quality and accelerating capability delivery.
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.
Provide support to the System Integration Laboratories (SILs) for faster testing and assessment of F-22 enhancements. Continue to update critical systems required to support new aircraft configurations and capabilities. Further continue Lab test planning using agile methods for all F-22 modernization and sustainment programs to include: Mode 5 Identify Friend or Foe Challenge (IFFC), Link 16, Tech Enabler Raptor Cloud Compute Services (TERCCS), Sensor Systems and Advanced Technology Development (ATD). Continue to update critical systems to include technology refresh and laboratory optimization improvements. Small projects continue transformational projects through technology planning studies and demonstrations for Developmental Test (DT) weapon assets, threat modeling support, test support, DT aircraft modifications, cyber security, End Cryptographic Unit (ECU) Upgrade, engine enhancements, instrumentation and crowd sourced flight data system, Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) development, Tech Enabler Raptor Cloud Compute Services (TE-RECCS) integration, cockpit tablet, Open System Architecture (OSA) / Open Systems Enclave (OSE) / Open Mission System (OMS) integration, and other advanced capability projects to improve the effectiveness of the F-22. Provide development and integration activities to produce a F-22 In-a-Box (IAB) product that can meet both test and training requirements in a high fidelity, life-like environment.
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 | 233.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 324.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 325.3 |
This activity is 34% of project 674785's FY2027 request and 34% of PE 0207138F'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.
12 activities in project 674785
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.