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.
Continue Sensor DT/OT flight test. Receive remaining DT/OT test assets and support equipment for use during testing to inform maintenance planning and logistic support. DT/OT testing expected to complete and support a Release 6 fielding decision in 4QFY2027. Complete transition of remaining manufacturing activities from the EMD facilities to the production facilities.
Increase of $3.160 million from FY2026 to FY2027 reflects continued development and integration as Developmental Test/Operational Test (DT/OT) flight test activities continue through FY2027.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue Sensor Enhancements software and hardware integration. Receive Developmental Test/Operational Test (DT/OT) assets, begin flight test on F-22's flying test bed in 3QFY2026, and begin DT/OT flight test on the F-22 in 4QFY2026. Continue technology maturation and complete the manufacturing readiness assessment.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 129.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 103.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 106.7 |
This activity is 11% of project 674785's FY2027 request and 11% 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.