What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 640410 of PE 0207522F. 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 operationalization, testing, and ultimately fielding of the Non-Kinetic Effector. - Will participate in select DAF and theater exercises and demonstrations in support of INDOPACOM and NORTHCOM - Will continue software development efforts on a government-run DevSecOps software pipeline -- Will integrate and develop kinetic and additional non-kinetic effector solutions - Will integrate and develop active defense radar solutions - Will support oversite, management, and execution of site stand-up, fielding, and sustainment of ABADS MD in INDOPACOM, NORTHCOM, and EUCOM - Will develop, test, and field capability enhancements
FY2026 to FY2027 increase due to increase in software development as well as system demonstration and testing to support NORAD/NORTHCOM mission set.
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.
- Participate in select Department of the Air Force and theater exercises and demonstrations - Support fielding of ABADS Missile Defense (MD) capability - Test, and field capability enhancements as identified - Generate formal program documentation in support of fielding effort - Develop and demonstrate a prototype Dynamic Detection Radar System (DDRS) capability including: -- Integrate passive RF sensing with existing tactical radar systems -- Develop multi-static coordination and communication architecture -- Develop software for sensor fusion, target cueing, and autonomous operation -- Conduct lab and field testing to validate performance and survivability -- Conduct operational experimentation with USAFE-AFAFRICA.
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 | 4.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 5.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 56.1 |
This activity is 66% of project 640410's FY2027 request and 66% of PE 0207522F'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 640410
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.