What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 675346 of PE 0207142F. 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.
In FY2027, funds provide for the continued development, procurement, and deployment of data-ingest capable systems and networks will continue in support of all F-35 Crowd Source Flight Data (CSFD) requirements. These systems and networks will enable efficient processing, storage, and transmission of all F-35-generated CSFD sources. Additionally, the program will focus on enhancing the operational effectiveness of CSFD by leveraging data science teams and integrating advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms.
Funding increased from FY2026 to FY2027 due to FY2026 Congressional reduction for project carryover (-$6.132 million).
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
In FY2026, the development, procurement, and deployment of data-ingest capable systems and networks will continue in support of all F-35 Crowd Source Flight Data (CSFD) requirements. These systems and networks will enable efficient processing, storage, and transmission of all F-35-generated CSFD sources. Additionally, the program will focus on enhancing the operational effectiveness of CSFD by leveraging data science teams and integrating advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) algorithms.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 17.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 17.1 |
This activity is 68% of project 675346's FY2027 request and 36% of PE 0207142F'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.
2 activities in project 675346
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 project page.