What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 664620 of PE 0303255F. 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.
Cost Savings are reflected based on USSTRATCOM's impact from the PDM I reductions in OSD Service Contracts and FFRDC reductions. Reductions will continue to adversely affect the NC3 efforts identified in the below FY27 Base Plan. -Continue to update the NC3 Roadmap, capture and develop NC3 Operational and Implementation baseline architecture in a Systems Modeling Language (SYSML) model, and expand physics-based models to support analysis, studies, and development of future NC3 systems. -Continue to conduct mission engineering and trade space analysis to inform enterprise-level investments and assist with modernization of NC3 systems to include command centers. -Continue NC3 Enterprise Operational Assessment Program; examine assets and procedures to provide end-to-end connectivity.
Operational costs reflect a slight increase from FY26 to FY27 to maintain necessary NC3 engineering and assessments support. However, overall cost savings are reflected based on historic execution due to USSTRATCOM's reductions in OSD Service Contracts and FFRDC reductions.
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.
Cost Savings are reflected based on USSTRATCOM's impact from the PDM I reductions in OSD Service Contracts and FFRDC reductions. Reductions may adversely affect the NC3 efforts identified in the below FY26 Base Plan. -Continue to update the NC3 Roadmap, capture and develop NC3 Operational and Implementation baseline architecture in a Systems Modeling Language (SYSML) model, and expand physics-based models to support analysis, studies, and development of future NC3 systems. -Continue to conduct mission engineering and trade space analysis to inform enterprise-level investments and assist with modernization of NC3 systems to include command centers. -Continue NC3 Enterprise Operational Assessment Program; examine assets and procedures to provide end-to-end connectivity from warning sensors to national decision makers to executing forces through the National Military Command System (NMCS).
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 | 17.1 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 10.6 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.9 |
This activity is 72% of project 664620's FY2027 request and 72% of PE 0303255F'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 664620
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.