What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 635351 of PE 0603199F. 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 rapid repair and materials development for aircraft battle damage repair of advanced fighter aircraft increasing mission availability. Activities include: -- Conduct laboratory demonstration of reduced repair/turn times provided by developed materials/processes - Continue demonstration of advanced durable aircraft canopy technology development to reduce maintenance burden on next generation aerospace systems. Activities include: -- Test and validate laboratory results through field service evaluations. - Complete development of total body nondestructive evaluation system for outer mold line inspection of advanced aircraft. - Accelerate additional activities to develop, demonstrate, and transition maintenance and sustainment technologies to improve component design, maintenance, repair, replacement, and concepts for maintainer training, extending part life, and reduced maintenance burden spanning Department of the Air Force mission areas. - Continue activities to demonstrate high reliability of repair and maintenance technologies to increase service time between maintenance actions, reducing demands on depots. Activities include: -- Engage unit-level maintenance groups to conduct field-level demonstrations and begin integration of developed technologies into daily operations. - Continue development of materials and processes to reduce maintenance burden on aerospace systems in austere environments, thus increasing durability/repairability of systems and keeping aircraft at forward bases for longer periods of time. Activities include: -- Assess transition viability of these materials to next-generation affordable mass systems. - Continue activities to develop system fleet management decision-making tools, maintenance/repair database technologies and techniques, and supply chain/infrastructure approaches to reduce sustainment costs. Activities include: -- Begin integration of the newly developed functionalities into a streamlined, comprehensive system.
FY 2027 funding increased compared to FY 2026 by $0.486 million to address the operational need for Mean Time Between Maintenance (MTBM) improvements.
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 rapid repair and materials development for aircraft battle damage repair of advanced fighter aircraft increasing mission availability. - Continue to accelerate advanced durable aircraft canopy technology development to reduce maintenance burden on aerospace systems. - Continue acceleration of total body nondestructive evaluation system for outer mold line inspection of advanced aircraft. - Continue to develop, demonstrate, and transition maintenance and sustainment technologies to improve component design, maintenance, repair, replacement, and concepts for maintainer training, extending part life, and reduced maintenance burden spanning Department of the Air Force mission areas. - Resume and accelerate activities to demonstrate high reliability of repair and maintenance technologies to increase service time between maintenance actions, reducing demands on depots. - Resume and accelerate development of materials and processes to reduce maintenance burden on aerospace systems in austere environments, thus increasing durability/repairability of systems and keeping aircraft at forward bases for longer periods of time. - Resume and accelerate activities to develop system fleet management decision-making tools, maintenance/repair database technologies and techniques, and supply chain/infrastructure approaches to reduce sustainment costs.
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 | 5.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.3 |
This activity is 100% of project 635351's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0603199F'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.
2 activities in project 635351
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.