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 IRDS group A and group B test asset development and operations. Continue IRDS engineering and design activities. Continue Geyser+'s EMD program activities. Geyser+'s EMD objectives during this period include supplier and integration hardware development, group A and B design completion, long-lead procurement of test hardware kits to support test fleet integration, and preparation for lab testing support increment 1 integration.
Increase of $53.624 million from FY2026 to FY2027 reflects increased development and test hardware for Infrared Defensive System (IRDS) and Geyser+. Purchasing tier III lab assets to support Ogden Test Evaluation Labs, Avionics Integration Lab, Flying Test Bed, and additional test equipment required for airworthiness certification of the new Open Computer Environment (OCE) cards.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continued Infrared Defensive System (IRDS) group A and group B test asset purchases and development and operation testings. Continue engineering and design activities and software integration development. Continue risk reduction efforts for Geyser+ that were previously initiated in ATD. Geyser+'s EMD objectives during this period include qualification of supplier hardware and group A and B design completion. Procurement of long-lead test hardware kits to support test fleet integration and software design and testing to support increment 1 integration.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 104.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 55.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 109.6 |
This activity is 12% of project 674785's FY2027 request and 12% 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.