What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 650098 of PE 0207407F. 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.
DAF Electromagnetic Battle Management program with continued efforts towards delivering an Early Operational Capability (EOC) system by 1QFY28. To do so, the best of breed Government-off-the-Shelf systems delivering Situational Awareness, Command and Control (C2) and Decision Support data, along with displaying a common operating picture will undergo system-of-system integration. The resulting prototype will then undergo live-fly demonstrations to test compatibility and deliver test metrics and validate the on-going platform integration efforts showcasing C2 capability to airborne units. Development on the Training suite will start and run parallel with the other integration work. EMBM IT Finally, the Electromagnetic Warfare System Program Office will be activated and readied for initial Low-Rate Initial Production efforts.
Funding increased to account for multiple live-fly demonstrations and the start-up of platform integration efforts with subject demo aircraft to reach EOC by 1QFY28.
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.
DAF Electromagnetic Battle Management program will execute a second weapons control test demo and start work under the System Development Contract. Contract work will focus on software integration, SA tool and system architecture back bone development efforts to set the metrics required to document Early Operational Capability (EOC). Data collected will influence the system-to-system integration work and AI/Machine Language efforts to reach the goal of EOC by the FY28Q1. Concurrently the EMBM IT Infrastructure thrust will begin development of the modern architecture required for the program to link into the DAF Battle Network. The program will also fund the building of and ramp-up of an EW System Program Office to be in place for Initial Operating Capability and LRIP sprint efforts post EOC.
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 | 17.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 45.3 |
This activity is 100% of project 650098's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0207407F'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 650098
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.