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 Air System and UMCS GCS development, design, and integration activities in support of flight test and carrier suitability certifications. Continue Cyber Security efforts to maintain Authority to Operate (ATO) certifications for the System Test and Integration Lab (STIL), Lab Revitalization Program and test facilities. Continue operation of the STIL in support of government led MQ-25 and UMCS software/hardware development, test activities, integration, and correction of deficiencies. Continue government led efforts that support science and technology investments and roadmap refinement. Develop a Software Support Activity for ongoing test, verification and validation of generated software code to ensure suitability and operational effectiveness. Continue government investments in science and technology for development of resilient communication hardware and software solutions and manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) data links.
Increase from FY26 value of $53.232M (under PE 0605414N) by $1.832M to $55.064M in FY27 is due MD-5 tech refresh requirements being added in FY27 as well as increase costs for software licenses.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 55.1 |
This activity is 13% of project 3278's FY2027 request and 11% 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.