What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 0457 of PE 0207161N. 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.
Software development and test efforts for OFS 11.5 and 11.6 will continue to optimize the SIP IV Hardware with updated software algorithms. Development efforts for the Digital Fuze to upgrade the Active Optical Target Detector to address updated requirements and reduce cost will begin. Test articles to support flight test of the 11.X OFS and integration for OFS 11.6 and Special Air Test Missiles (NATMs) in support of OFS 11.7 OT&E and integration testing.
FY 2026 to FY 2027 decrease is due to reduction to contractor support services.
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.
SIP IV sensor and Electronics Unit hardware development efforts will complete by the end of 4th Quarter FY 2026. Software development and test efforts for OFS 11.5 and 11.6 will occur in order to optimize the SIP IV Hardware with updated software algorithms. Development efforts for the Digital Fuze to upgrade the Active Optical Target Detector to address updated requirements and reduce cost, will begin in FY 2026.
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 | 27.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 30.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 29.9 |
This activity is 24% of project 0457's FY2027 request and 24% of PE 0207161N'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.
4 activities in project 0457
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.