What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 675922 of PE 0304784F. 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.
-Complete OA preparation activities -Complete aircrew training material -Complete aircrew training -Conduct OA Phase 1 activities -Complete OA Phase 2 capability enhancement activities --Complete NRE and integration of relevant sensor payload --Complete NRE and integration of enhanced C2 architecture
This effort is not a new start; FY26 funding was realigned from O&M to RDTE
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.
-Complete non-recurring engineering (NRE) and integration of Rotax 916 engine -Complete NRE and integration of line-of-sight (LOS) and beyond line-of-site (BLOS) command and control links -Complete integration and testing of sensor payloads. -Continue aircrew training for 4-ship operation. -Complete CONUS flight tests. -Finalize operational test preparation and OCONUS approvals/coordination leading up to an operational assessment of ULTRA in an operationally relevant environment.
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 | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 16.6 |
This activity is 100% of project 675922's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0304784F'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 675922
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.