What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3448 of PE 0603128N. 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.
FY 2027 will continue program, engineering, logistics and test support for MQ-9A capability and payload development, design work, technical requirements refinement and full integration of sensors into the system.
FY 2027 increase of $.451 million is due to additional programmatic, engineering and logistics support required for the advancement of the Primary Development (Hardware/Software) of the MDA material solutions and the increase in Payload Capability Development.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Program, engineering, logistics and test support for MQ-9A capability and payload development, design work, technical requirements refinement and full integration of sensors into the system.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 20.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.5 |
This activity is 35% of project 3448's FY2027 request and 35% of PE 0603128N'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.
3 activities in project 3448
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.