What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 634920 of PE 0603211F. 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.
Complete development of advanced contingency management capabilities required for credible affordable mass. - Deliver contingency management strategies and capabilities to enable affordable mass in high-speed systems. Commence development of autonomy architecture and communication changes for contingency management. - Activities include initial studies of architecture changes for flight- and mission-critical contingencies, passing representative contingency information between modeled vehicle, flight and mission layers.
FY 2027 funding increased by $12.114 million due to the transfer of the Autonomous Systems Control Integration and Demonstration effort and associated funding within this Program Element from Project 634927 / Flight Systems Control to Project 634920 / Aerospace Systems Integration & Demonstration. This includes an increase from FY2026 to FY2027 of $9.317 million due to increased need for autonomous contingency management to deliver affordable credible mass and due to the complexity of developing and integrating contingency solutions across the autonomy hardware and software stack due to their potential impact on flight safety and mission success.
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.
In FY 2025 and FY 2026, the Autonomous Systems Control Integration and Demonstration effort and funding were reported in Program Element 0603211F/ Aerospace Technology Dev/Demo/Project 634927/Flight Systems Control. FY 2025 funding was $0.636 million and FY 2026 funding is $2.797 million.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 12.1 |
This activity is 4.7% of project 634920's FY2027 request and 4.7% of PE 0603211F'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.
7 activities in project 634920
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.