What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 648030 of PE 0208030F. 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.
To fund DTRA Tools, EWAAC Air Force Targeting, and Effects Software (AFTES) and DISA Contracts.
Increase from FY26 to FY27 to fund EWAAC Air Force Targeting and Effects Software (AFTES) and DISA Contracts.
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.
AFCER will be continue enhancement in FY26 with weapon methodology from our digital pipeline coordinated with AFRL and DTRA mission partners for ultimate integration with AFTES and IMEA programs. As noted, AFCER is being developed as part of the AFTES ecosystem of lethality and target capabilities to be used by ABMS or even JADC2. OWA will continue to expand our AF Weapon and Target (WEPTAR) Operational Users Working Group to provide continuous software reviews supporting our accreditation and validation efforts. The goal is to push R&D capabilities forward by shifting operational review left in the agile development cycle. This allows for 'Speed of Need' to occur within AF operational communities. Develop and accredit the DEVSECOPS pipeline tool stack supporting Agile based Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI/CD) pipeline and conduct quarterly AFTES and IMEA Technical Product Previews (TPPs) of evolving phenomenology models and operational capabilities. Program impacts will be briefed to WEPTAR Operational Community and MAJCOM stakeholders. Will continue focus on all domain development to include kinetic, directed energy, and cyber in FY26 to create KE/DE synergistic effects and cyber evaluations of targets. Future effort on focused kinetic weapon development to support hypersonic development within the multi-domain of capabilities. Limited weapon data, target data and methodology will be hosted in AFCER. Verification, Validation and Accreditation (VV&A) and Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) efforts will also be a future focus. Enhancement of Agile pipeline development processes will be supported by enhancing unit, integration, functional, and system level testing. Develop, validate, and accredit improved computer vulnerability and weapons effectiveness models in support of warfighter requirements; will continue the integration of Verification, Validation and Accreditation (VV&A) and Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) efforts into Agile product development processes.
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 | 5.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 9.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.7 |
This activity is 100% of project 648030's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0208030F'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 648030
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.