What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project BC1 of PE 0603118A. 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 begin demonstration and validation of next generation static line parachute, incorporating new material and design characteristics; Perform integration and demonstration of technologies in support of long range Joint Precision AirDrop System (JPADS) variants, at distances in excess of 10x of current capabilities; Validate mission planning software algorithms, to rapidly facilitate route planning of autonomous aerial delivery vehicles; Demonstrate and validate technologies to increase Dual Row Airdrop System (DRAS) capability by ~20%.
Funding increase reflects transfer from Program Element (PE) 0603118A (Soldier Lethality Advanced Technology) / Project BE5 (Personnel & Airdrop Safety Advanced Technology) to streamline and optimize the Science and Technology (S&T) portfolio.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 10.6 |
This activity is 19% of project BC1's FY2027 request and 8.5% of PE 0603118A'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.
9 activities in project BC1
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.