What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 642407 of PE 0207606F. 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.
FY 2027 continues additional development, evaluations, and experimentation of system models and OFP-based simulators to assess OFP interoperability, to include but not limited to continued integration of E-7 PIAB, Command and Control capabilities, continued integration of F-22 PIAB, F-15EX PIAB development and associated integration, as well as compare OFPs against JSE GSI and SCARS Simulator standards. FY 2027 also funds the evaluation and integration of new technologies to include XR/VR Goggle capability, JSE common cockpit configuration physical device footprint reduction, and hardware cost requirements for JSE enabled sites.
FY 2027 funding increased 7.748 million due to phased development approaches to support Platforms-In-A-Box (PIABs) development to include E-7 and F-15EX, in addition to other weapons systems and platforms.
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.
FY 2026 continued additional development, evaluations, and experimentation of system models and OFP-based simulators to assess OFP interoperability to include but not limited to the addition of E-7, Command and Control capabilities, F-15EX PIAB Design Study, continued integration of F-22 PIAB, as well as compare OFPs against JSE GSI and SCARS Simulator standards. FY 2026 also funds evaluation and integration of new technologies including XR/VR Goggle capability, JSE common cockpit configuration physical device footprint reduction and hardware cost requirements for JSE enabled sites.
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 | 37.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 45.2 |
This activity is 15% of project 642407's FY2027 request and 15% of PE 0207606F'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 642407
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.