What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 646002 of PE 0207455F. 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 integrated test and evaluation activities to characterize system performance. - Continue initial operational test & evaluation to support system fielding decision. - Begin testing of additional CDD required capabilities. - Prepare for Operational Utility Evaluation (OUE) testing.
FY 2027 increase is to support additional developmental and operational testing.
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 government-led integrated test and evaluation activity to characterize system performance. - Begin initial operational test & evaluation (IOT&E) to support system fielding decision.
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 | 0.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 4.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.5 |
This activity is 56% of project 646002's FY2027 request and 56% of PE 0207455F'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.
2 activities in project 646002
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.