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.
Continue development of component technologies - Activities include design advancement of intelligent power distribution, design advancement of engine-agnostic power generation, and planned initial testing of affordable power generator hardware. Complete aircraft-scale power generation subsystem concept design - Activities include identification of high-tech risk components and controls development. Commence development and demonstration of integrated architectures for autonomous collaborative platforms - Activities include model-based systems engineering informed early design of electrical power system and thermal management system demonstrations.
FY 2027 funding increased by $10.286 million due to the transfer of the Power & Thermal Systems Integration and Demonstration effort and associated funding within this Program Element from Project 634927 / Flight Systems Control to Project 634920 / Flight Vehicle Tech Integration (now called Aerospace Systems Integration and Demonstration). This includes an increase from FY2026 to FY2027 of $3.829 million due to programmatic adjustments to the DAF Science and Technology portfolio. This reduction reflects a strategic realignment to optimize core research areas and improve resource efficiency.
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 Power & Thermal Systems 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 $8.082 million and FY 2026 funding is $14.115 million.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 10.3 |
This activity is 4.0% of project 634920's FY2027 request and 4.0% 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.