What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 675356 of PE 0207325F. 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.
Will continue sub-system and system-level hardware demonstrations and qualification. Will continue system level testing and qualification activities required for flight testing that begins in FY 2027. FY 2027 Funding ($98.792 million) will be comprised of the WDL contract ($86.927 million), Government Test support ($3.923 million), and Program Management Administration ($7.942 million).
Funding decreased due to reduced efforts in the AGM-158D/B-3 EMD Contract ramp down getting to production readiness review and cut-in of this critical capability in FY 2027.
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.
Continue sub-system and system-level hardware demonstrations and qualification, as well as system level testing and qualification activities required for flight testing that begins in FY 2026. FY 2026 Funding ($178.592 million) is comprised of the WDL contract ($157.329 million), Government Test support ($8.849 million), and Program Management Administration ($12.415 million).
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 144.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 178.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 98.8 |
This activity is 74% of project 675356's FY2027 request and 74% of PE 0207325F'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.
3 activities in project 675356
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.