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 Test and Evaluation activities to include but not limited to Development Test & Evaluation, Operational Test & Evaluation, Tanker Qualification, Receiver Certifications, Live Fire Test & Evaluation (LFT&E).
Funding increased due to ramp up of DT&E and OT&E activities.
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 Test and Evaluation activities to include but not limited to Development Test & Evaluation (DT&E), Operational Test & Evaluation (OT&E), Tanker Qualification, Receiver Certifications, Live Fire Test & Evaluation (LFT&E).
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 | 17.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 14.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 33.9 |
This activity is 22% of project 655271's FY2027 request and 6.2% 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.