R-2A Activity · President's Budget PB2027

Hybrid Satellite Communication (SATCOM)

Activity a10·Project 674785 — F-22·PE 0207138F·U.S. Air Force
FY2027 Request
$36.8M
▲ 139% vs FY2026
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This activity requests $36.8M in FY2027, 3.9% of project 674785, up 139% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

FY2027 Request
$36.8M
▲ 139% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$15.4M
No FY2025 funding
FY2025 Actual
$0.0M
Prior year
Planned work

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.

FY2027 planned work

Continue design integration requirements and begin lab/developmental test activities.

FY2026 to FY2027 change

Increase of $21.407 million from FY2026 to FY2027 reflects completion of EMD hardware purchases in FY2026 and beginning of development/testing activity in FY2027.

Before the request year

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.

FY2026 plans — current year

Continue risk reduction efforts and initiate activities for the EMD phase of the Hybrid SATCOM program. Key objectives include the continued design of group A and B to support Hybrid SATCOM Phase 1 and software development to support Hybrid SATCOM Phase 1.

Money

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.

2500.0FY25ACTUAL15.4FY26ENACTED36.8FY27REQUEST
Actual Enacted Request
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual0.0
FY2026Enacted15.4
FY2027Request36.8

This activity is 3.9% of project 674785's FY2027 request and 3.9% 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.

Where this sits

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.

Infrastructure$325.3M flatSoftware Pathway for Enabling Expedited Deliveries (SPEED)$243.9M ▲ 18%Viability$109.6M ▲ 96%Sensor Systems$106.7M ▲ 3%Cryptographic Modernization$49.0M ▲ 201%
Hybrid Satellite Communication (SATCOM) — this activity$36.8M ▲ 139%
Low Drag Tanks and Pylons (LDTP)$34.0M ▼ 38%Advanced Technology Development (ATD)$26.7M ▲ 26%
Mode 5 Identify Friend or Foe Challenge (IFFC)$9.2M ▼ 10%
Embedded GPS/Inertial Navigation System (INS) Modernization (EGI-M)$6.8M ▲ 153%
Controlled Reception Pattern Antenna (CRPA)/Anti-Jam Global Positioning System (GPS) Antenna$2.3M ▼ 32%
Link 16 (L16) and Open System Architecture (OSA) Increment II Improvements$0.0M
Source
FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibit R-2A · PE 0207138F, project 674785 (President's Budget PB2027). Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, never on an activity.
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