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 efforts will continue the ongoing development and integration of F-22 capabilities and continue EMD program activities for HMDCS and Link-16. These efforts will include, but are not limited to, the initiation of software development, enhancements, firmware upgrades, integration, test, and incremental upgrade activities with 2-way communication for system cueing. The Raptor Release 5 Production Build 002 Fielding Decision Review is scheduled for May 2027, with Time Compliance Technical Order in June 2027. Work will also be done to initiate contracting actions and begin procurement of HMDCS EMD kits and complete HMDCS's ejection safety qualification effort on the Holloman AFB High Speed Test Track. Link-16 will continue development and integration of multiple Open System Architecture (OSA) infrastructure enhancements, begin test of OSA networking firmware upgrade, and continue existing defect corrections and future capability development in support of Multifunction Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio System (MIDS JTRS).
Increase of $37.753 million from FY2026 to FY2027 reflects a new transformation Contract Line Item Number (CLIN) on Agile Releases for Test, Execution, Modernization, Integration, and Sustainment (ARTEMIS) II software Operational Flight Program (OFP) contract to improve the OFP pipeline, as well as a ramp up in software integration capacity.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
FY2026 plans include the fielding of Raptor Release 5, the SPEED Minimum Viable Content Release, as well as HMDCS Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) program activities including the initiation of software development, enhancements, firmware upgrades, integration, test, and incremental upgrade activities with work on 2-way communication for system cueing. Begin contracting actions and procurement of HMDCS EMD kits. Begin ejection safety qualification effort at the Holloman AFB High Speed Test Track for HMDCS. Plans also include Link 16 continued development, integration, and test for Classified Capability 1, initiate development and integration of an Open System Architecture (OSA) infrastructure enhancement to provide flexibility in design of future hardware and software. Continue existing defect corrections and future capabilities development in support of Multifunction Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio System (MIDS JTRS). Funds may be used to support Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) integration efforts.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 8.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 206.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 243.9 |
This activity is 26% of project 674785's FY2027 request and 26% 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.