What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 674597 of PE 0207461F. 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.
• Further development of ARES capabilities to accelerate deprecation of Patriot Excalibur (PEX) and Puckboard applications. • Incorporate requirements for scheduling, to include combat scheduling, training management, and standardization and evaluation (stan/eval) that incorporates requirements from all MAJCOMs and provides an enterprise solution for the Department of the Air Force (DAF). • Expedite the delivery of mission critical Command and Control (C2) capabilities and facilitate the timely deprecation of legacy C2 systems costing the DAF millions in sustainment costs. • Expedite development and deployment approach to support an aggressive timeline to fielding. The current milestone schedule for development of ARES is predicated on multiple development teams necessary to meet critical deliverable timelines. • Procure licenses for advanced development activities to include Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) capabilities utilized within the ARES application to increase application proficiency and efficacy. • Research and experiment on deploying ARES within a Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Limited-Impact (DDIL) environment. • Develop options to transition ARES from Impact Level 4 (IL-4) to IL-6 partition.
In FY 2027, the funding decreases to support higher Department of War priorities. FY 2026 funding for Kessel Run Flight Operations is under PE 0207410F, (Air & Space Operations Center), Project 674597 (Kessel Run Flight Operations) efforts.
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.
For FY 2026 plans, please refer to PE 0207410F BPAC 674597 (Kessel Run Flight Operations)
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 16.0 |
This activity is 100% of project 674597's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0207461F'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 674597
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.