What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 0981 of PE 0207163N. 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.
Field SIP 4 in first quarter. Continue CSP, and SIP 5 and SIP 3 Tape 3 software development.
FY 2027 increases by $0.985 million as program focuses shifts from test and fielding on SIP 3 Tape 2 and SIP 4 to a development focus on SIP 3 Tape 3 and SIP 5.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
CSP. Start SIP 4 IT with planned Functional Configuration Audit (FCA) in the second quarter followed by dedicated OT through the end of FY 2026. Continue SIP 5 software development. SIP 3 Tape 2 will complete a planned FCA followed by fielding in the first quarter. Begin SIP 3 Tape 3 software development with a contract award in the second quarter
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 18.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 16.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 17.2 |
This activity is 70% of project 0981's FY2027 request and 70% of PE 0207163N'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 0981
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.