What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 641334 of PE 0305236F. 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.
- Will continue development of vendor and government owned reference implementation of the new LPI/LPD/AJ waveform to perform future test and validation to ensure the CDL specification is accurate and can be built by multiple vendors in the future, therefore keeping the market space open. - Will continue evaluation, analysis and study of network management devices, network and waveform configuration tool development; transition improved technologies into CDL Specification baseline that increases data sharing across Service-specific networks. - Will continue development and advancement of dynamical control algorithms to enable terminals to more efficiently use CDL spectrum. This work is also to validate the CDL Common Control Interface. - Will continue to work with CDL industry partners and DoW Services and Agencies to document, validate, and test common terminal control interfaces through use of commercially recognized standards. - Will continue configuration control of the CDL architecture, standards, specifications and reference artifacts to support open interoperability and open competition. - Will continue development of JITC CDL test equipment capable of compliance testing to the latest, validated version of CDL specifications and enhance DoW-wide interoperability testing. - Will continue development of NCDL Aurora waveforms.
The reduced budgetary allocations for Accomplishments/Planned Programs come from a department of War program funding cut of 20% across the FYDP. The Common Data Link (CDL) program focused on core competencies of waveform specification maintenance and updates, as well as cryptographic core modernization and SERD 2.0 compliance.
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 development of vendor and government owned reference implementation of the new LPI/LPD/AJ waveform to perform future test and validation to ensure the CDL specification is accurate and can be built by multiple vendors in the future, therefore keeping the market space open. - Continue evaluation, analysis and study of network management devices, network and waveform configuration tool development; transition improved technologies into CDL Specification baseline that increases data sharing across Service-specific networks. - Continue development and advancement of dynamical control algorithms to enable terminals to more efficiently use CDL spectrum. This work is also to validate the CDL Common Control Interface. - Continue to work with CDL industry partners and DoD Services and Agencies to document, validate, and test common terminal control interfaces through use of commercially recognized standards. - Continue configuration control of the CDL architecture, standards, specifications and reference artifacts to support open interoperability and open competition. - Continue development of JITC CDL test equipment capable of compliance testing to the latest, validated version of CDL specifications and enhance DoW-wide interoperability testing. - Will publish Network Common Data Link (NCDL) Aurora Mode 501 Specification.
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 | 11.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 11.7 |
This activity is 44% of project 641334's FY2027 request and 44% of PE 0305236F'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 641334
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.