What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project A77 of PE 0603275A. 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.
Will provide detailed vulnerability analysis of expanded/layered Radar based adversary intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance to validate payload and software development; optimize system modeling to cover specific adversary signal bands of interest; and optimize Electronic Attack (EA) techniques to improve blue force kinetic effect lethality; provide detailed vulnerability analysis of expanded adversary command and control communications used for coordinated targeting and situational awareness to validate payload and software development; optimize modeling for additional adversary signals of interest, informed by threat intelligence for EW mission planning of coordinated and distributed EW against adversary layered defenses; and improve proof of concept EA techniques informed by vulnerability analysis against adversary tactical communication systems to reduce adversary effectiveness of targeting blue force kinetic effects; provide detailed vulnerability analysis of adversary alternative Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) to optimize EA payload and software development and optimize modeling to include specific adversary GNSS signals of interest and refine EA payload performance parameters based on the constraints of modular, low size weight and power (SWAP) EW payloads for UxS.
Funding increase is to mature EW hardware and EA techniques to support cooperative and distributed EW missions and defeating adversary layered defenses.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 12.2 |
This activity is 14% of project A77's FY2027 request and 7.8% of PE 0603275A'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.
14 activities in project A77
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.