What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2134 of PE 0304785N. 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.
The details of the Distributed Operations (DO) sub-project are classified SECRET and are submitted annually to Congress in the classified budget justification books.
The details of the DO sub-project are classified SECRET and are submitted annually to Congress in the classified budget justification books.
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.
- This program is not a new start; funding previously covered under Horizon and Distributed Operations (DO) and now broken out to provide greater visibility and alignment with this increase in capability. The details of Distributed Operations (DO) sub-project are classified SECRET and are submitted annually to Congress in the classified budget justification books.
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 | 28.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 26.3 |
This activity is 12% of project 2134's FY2027 request and 9.6% of PE 0304785N'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.
8 activities in project 2134
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.