What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 630320 of PE 0603032F. 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.
- Continue advanced research and development into distributed antenna arrays (from noncoherent to fully coherent) to quantify potential benefits for the warfighter in terms of performance and cost. - Commence requirements maturation with stakeholders to include PEO. - Commence design and initiation of field test capability to explore full trade space of collectively using distributed ground terminals to improve connectivity. - Commence assessment of cutting-edge antenna capability, addressing current and future operational needs. - Commence feasibility assessment of distributed antenna array technologies.
FY 2027 funding increased compared to FY 2026 by $11.256 million due to commencement of design and initiation of field testing, requirements maturation, and feasibility of array technologies.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
- Commence advanced research and development into distributed antenna arrays (from noncoherent to fully coherent) to quantify potential benefits for the warfighter in terms of performance and cost.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 1.9 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.1 |
This activity is 4.7% of project 630320's FY2027 request and 4.7% of PE 0603032F'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.
14 activities in project 630320
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.