What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3278 of PE 0207255N. 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 developmental test and evaluation of EDM3 towards completion of first carrier suitability events. Continue development, design, software integration, and delivery of EDM1, EDM2, EDM4 and SDTA1 to the test program. Continue development of MD-5 integration software. Continue development and redesign of obsolete critical flight system avionics to refine the production baseline. Continue efforts to support IOC and beyond such as advanced training, tactics, and techniques, obsolescence, sustainment, and studies related to operational employment learned since EMD contract award.
Increase from FY26 value of $105.773M (under PE 0605414N) by $128.875M to $234.648M in FY27 is due to obsolescence redesign in support of critical avionic systems for the additional SDTA aircraft and LRIP baseline. Increase also supports software integration and cyber security patching for Cross Domain Solution (CDS) Raise the Bar v5.1 initiative for authorization towards operational testing and deployment.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 234.6 |
This activity is 53% of project 3278's FY2027 request and 46% of PE 0207255N'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.
6 activities in project 3278
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.