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.
Complete development of high-bandwidth beyond-line-of-sight demonstration satellite communications capabilities. Continue annual, on-going, technology maturation, development and risk reduction projects in support of various F-22 development efforts.
Increase of $5.537 million from FY2026 to FY2027 reflects the increase of high-bandwidth beyond-line-of-sight demonstration satellite communications capabilities work, and furthering technology maturation testing activity.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue technology maturation, development and risk reduction projects in support of various F-22 development efforts. Examples include, but are not limited to, continued development of high-bandwidth beyond-line-of-sight satellite communications, assessments of emerging systems and tactics development, and system hardware development and testing. Project Geyser+ continued flight demonstrations to support technology maturation and continued hardware design analysis to inform production configuration and integration requirements for Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD).
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 41.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 21.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 26.7 |
This activity is 2.8% of project 674785's FY2027 request and 2.8% 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.