What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 660192 of PE 0208201F. 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 planning activities, Request for Proposal release, contract award, and other program support costs for Groups 1-3. Continue agile software development to integrate aircraft configurations with O-sUAS. FY2027 plans to build out derived infrastructure for test and integration at the component level and small UAS communications relay systems.
FY2027 funding increased compared to FY2026 by $25.270 million. FY2026 base of $4.917 million increased to $30.187 million in FY2027 due to ramp up of software development and buildup of derived infrastructure for test and integration.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue planning activities, Request for Proposal release, contract award, and other program support costs. After award, begin agile software development to integrate aircraft configurations within Offensive sUAS.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 4.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 30.2 |
This activity is 100% of project 660192's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0208201F'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 660192
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.