What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 673040 of PE 0303131F. 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.
Funding is for the continued development of FETs and ESS Development. FAB-T FET integration and testing activities will include reliability growth testing and fabrication of test assets; test terminals will support terminal security, environmental, and functional testing, to include flight testing, and early integration efforts. Planning and support activities will continue, including qualification test planning, logistics support planning, risk reduction activities for development and follow-on production, technical analysis and studies, platform integration support, program office support, and mitigations for Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages in preparation for terminal production.
Funding increase is based upon the planned increase of material purchases and testing as FET nears completion of development and test asset configuration activities supporting subsequent production and B-52 integration along with pulling Evolved Strategic SATCOM Activities into FY27.
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.
Funding is for the continued development of FETs. FAB-T FET integration and testing activities will include reliability growth testing and fabrication of test assets; prototype and test terminals will support terminal security, environmental, and functional testing, to include flight testing, and early integration efforts. Planning and support activities will continue, including qualification test planning, logistics support planning, risk reduction activities for development and follow-on production, technical analysis and studies, platform integration support, program office support, and mitigations for Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages in preparation for terminal production.
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 | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 66.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 81.3 |
This activity is 100% of project 673040's FY2027 request and 32% of PE 0303131F'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 673040
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 project page.