What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 671012 of PE 0207268F. 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.
- Address engine component redesign, repair/rework procedures, engine maturation and life limit/mission analysis - Validate redesigned parts and new repair procedures - Maintain engine flight safety, address obsolescence deficiencies, improve OR and R&M, reduce engine LCC, and sustain engines throughout their service life
Increase from FY26 to FY27 provides critical funding to address a diverse range of safety, readiness, and obsolescence challenges across legacy and trainer engine fleets. The increase enables execution of high-priority tasks, including initiating a TF33 Common Compressor program to mitigate parts shortfalls and developing Additive Manufacturing spares to combat obsolescence. For the J85 fleet, it funds the Controls & Accessories Life Management (CALM-5) project to address the primary readiness degrader for the T-38. This budget also formally stands up sustaining engineering support for the F404 and provides investment for foundational P-CORE Digital Transformation projects.
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.
- Address engine component redesign, repair/rework procedures, engine maturation and life limit/mission analysis - Validate redesigned parts and new repair procedures - Maintain engine flight safety, address obsolescence deficiencies, improve OR and R&M, reduce engine LCC, and sustain engines throughout their service life
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 | 19.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 23.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 69.7 |
This activity is 40% of project 671012's FY2027 request and 34% of PE 0207268F'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 671012
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.