What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 675347 of PE 0207249F. 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 to develop ATP Operational Flight Program (OFP) user requirements, improved long-range target detection/identification capabilities, and continuous stabilized surveillance via Large Aperture Kits enabling support to Ground Forces.
FY27 Operational Flight Program requirements increased for LITENING and Sniper pods to accurately reflect ATP advanced technology OFP Cost, technical analysis, and testing.
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.
Accomplish ATP Operational Flight Program (OFP) user requirements and provided improved long-range target detection/identification and continuous stabilized surveillance in support of ground forces with Large Aperture kits.
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 | 9.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 13.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.6 |
This activity is 100% of project 675347's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0207249F'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 675347
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.