R-2A Activity · President's Budget PB2027

Vanguard Prospect - Ephemeral Paragon (E-Gon)

Activity a5·Project 630320 — Air Force Vanguards·PE 0603032F·U.S. Air Force
FY2027 Request
$45.9M
▲ 25% vs FY2026
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This activity requests $45.9M in FY2027, 16% of project 630320, up 25% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

FY2027 Request
$45.9M
▲ 25% vs FY2026
FY2026 Enacted
$36.9M
▲ 155% vs FY2025
FY2025 Actual
$14.5M
Prior year
Planned work

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.

FY2027 planned work

- Continue and increase the rate of advancing the maturation of electromagnetic warfare methodologies. - Continue and increase the rate of advancing algorithm maturation and assessment supporting software integration. - Continue and increase the rate of advancing the assessment and evaluation efforts for subsystems, and algorithms to test the electronic warfare (EW) solution. - Continue and increase the rate of advancing integration of subsystems, algorithms, and electromagnetic warfare methodologies towards an EW solution. - Continue and increase the rate of advancing incremental systems test and capabilities assessments of integrated components. - Commence system of system integration into operational platforms. - Commence planning for flight test operations for various operational platforms.

FY2026 to FY2027 change

FY 2027 funding increased compared to FY 2026 by $9.077 million due to commencing system of system integrations for operational platforms and planning for flight testing with various operational platforms. FY 2026 is the first year of full execution by the contractors. FY 2027 is the peak execution year for the continuing activities within this vanguard prospect.

Before the request year

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.

FY2026 plans — current year

- Continue and increase the rate of advancing the maturation of electromagnetic warfare methodologies. - Continue and increase the rate of advancing algorithm maturation and assessment supporting software integration. - Continue and increase the rate of advancing the assessment and evaluation efforts for subsystems, and algorithms to test the electronic warfare (EW) solution. - Continue and increase the rate of advancing integration of subsystems, algorithms, and electromagnetic warfare methodologies towards an EW solution. - Continue and increase the rate of advancing incremental systems test and capabilities assessments of integrated components.

Money

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.

25014.5FY25ACTUAL36.9FY26ENACTED45.9FY27REQUEST
Actual Enacted Request
Fiscal YearEstimate TypeAmount ($M)
FY2025Actual14.5
FY2026Enacted36.9
FY2027Request45.9

This activity is 16% of project 630320's FY2027 request and 16% 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.

Where this sits

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.

Vanguard Prospect - Ephemeral Paragon (E-Gon) — this activity$45.9M ▲ 25%
Vanguard Pathfinder - Integrated Combat Effects$42.6M ▲ 2031%Vanguard Prospect - CRONUS$38.0M ▼ 3%Vanguard Prospect - EO/IR Sensing Demonstration$36.5M ▲ 16%Vanguard Prospect - Payload Delivery System$32.9M ▲ 8%Vanguard Prospect - Scabbard Rage$30.7M ▲ 26%Vanguard Prospect - APEX GEAR$27.0M ▲ 18%Vanguard Pathfinder - Integrated Electronic Warfare$13.1M ▲ 598%Vanguard Pathfinder - Integrated Networks$11.2M ▲ 287%
WARTECH$4.0M ▲ 13%
Vanguard Prospect - Resolute Sentry$0.0M ▼ 100%
Vanguard Prospect - Area Effects Demonstration$0.0M ▼ 100%
Vanguard Prospect - Fight Tonight$0.0M
Vanguard Prospect - Swift Hammer$0.0M ▼ 100%
Source
FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification · Exhibit R-2A · PE 0603032F, project 630320 (President's Budget PB2027). Congressional marks are recorded on the program element, never on an activity.
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