What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 640017 of PE 0207147F. 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.
Collaborative Combat Aircraft will continue to conduct studies and analyses, identify technology candidates, execute concept refinement activities, execute technology maturation and risk reduction activities, execute engineering and manufacturing development activities, as well as weapon systems development, integration, test, prototyping, demonstrations, and crewed systems integration to reduce risk and mature CCA concepts and air superiority related technologies.
Funding increased for acceleration of additional capability development.
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.
Collaborative Combat Aircraft will continue to conduct studies and analyses, identify technology candidates, execute concept refinement activities, execute technology maturation and risk reduction activities as well as weapon systems development, integration, test, prototyping, demonstrations, and crewed systems integration to reduce risk and mature CCA concepts and air superiority related technologies.
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 | 688.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 110.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 1,373.7 |
This activity is 100% of project 640017's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0207147F'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.
1 activity in project 640017
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.