What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2939 of PE 0305421N. 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.
FY27 continues to support integrated test team labor to reduce risk in design and development, perform subsystem level ground and acceptance testing, and obtain the necessary satellite communications required for system level test. To support the Increment 2 program schedule, the program continues System Level II and III testing, Software Build flight test, and Corrections of Deficiencies (CODs).
Increase in FY27 for Test & Evaluation is due to the increased Testing requirements associated with Increment 2 capabilities.
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.
FY26 continues to support integrated test team labor to reduce risk in design and development, perform subsystem level ground and acceptance testing, and obtain the necessary satellite communications required for system level test. To support the Increment 2 program schedule, the program continues System Level II and III testing, Software Build flight test, and Corrections of Deficiencies (CODs).
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 | 23.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 21.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 22.0 |
This activity is 6.8% of project 2939's FY2027 request and 6.4% of PE 0305421N'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.
4 activities in project 2939
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.