# Affordable Survivability Technologies

**R-2A activity** of project 635351 — Technology Sustainment  
**Program element:** 0603199F — Technology Sustainment  
**Component:** U.S. Air Force · **Budget Activity:** 3  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603199F/635351/a0  
**Parent:** https://hitchintel.com/programs/0603199F

## Summary

This activity requests $13.3M in FY2027, 100% of project 635351, up 3.8% on FY2026. The R-2A exhibit describes it across FY2026–FY2027, including what the FY2027 money is planned to buy.

## What the FY2027 request buys

**FY2027 planned work.** - 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.

**FY2026 to FY2027 change.** FY 2027 funding increased compared to FY 2026 by $0.486 million to address the operational need for Mean Time Between Maintenance (MTBM) improvements.

## Before the request year

**FY2026 plans — current year.** - 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.

## Funding

| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 5.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 12.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.3 |

> Prior, current and budget year only — an R-2A activity carries no five-year plan. It sums exactly into its project in the request year and not necessarily in any other.

## Other activities in project 635351

- Management/Improved Reliability Technologies — FY2027 0.0

## Source & machine access

- **Source:** FY2027 Department of the Air Force RDT&E Budget Justification, Exhibit R-2A, PE 0603199F project 635351 (PB PB2027). Narrative is the government's own text.
- **No marks, no contractors at this grain** — congressional marks land on the program element and R-3 performers on the project.
- **MCP:** `mcp.hitchintel.com` — `budget_get_activity`.

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