What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 655271 of PE 0401221F. 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 product refinement, studies, ground, and flight testing in support of the KC-46 weapon system to include receiver certifications, simulator data collection, and completion of IOT&E events/reporting. Incrementally fund boom telescope actuator redesign (BTAR) Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) efforts and solution for Remote Vision System (RVS), to address deficiencies and improve capability.
Funding increased due to ramp up in support activities such as BTAR redesign, receiver activities and correcting deficiencies.
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 product refinement, studies, ground, and flight testing in support of the KC-46 weapon system to include receiver certifications, simulator data collection, and completion of IOT&E events/reporting. Incrementally fund boom telescope actuator redesign (BTAR) Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) efforts and solution for Remote Vision System (RVS), and Take Off and Landing Data (TOLD) to address deficiencies and improve capability. Study, analyze, test and update documentation in order to certify and increase KC-46 capability for aerial refueling (AR) onload.
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 | 7.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 19.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 120.6 |
This activity is 78% of project 655271's FY2027 request and 22% of PE 0401221F'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 655271
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.