What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 329 of PE 0603289D8Z. 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.
Conduct formulation and risk reduction for five to six projects reviewed by the Cross Functional Teams and proposed to begin 6.4 work in FY 2027.
The increase will fund slightly higher costs for a similar number of formulation and risk reduction activities to allow projects selected to enter Formulation in FY 2027 to be ready to enter Execution in FY 2028.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
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.
Conduct formulation and risk reduction for five to six projects reviewed by the Cross Functional Teams and proposed to begin 6.4 work in FY 2027.
Conduct formulation and risk reduction for five to six projects reviewed by the Cross Functional Teams and proposed to begin 6.4 work in FY 2026.
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 | 24.5 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 36.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 24.9 |
This activity is 48% of project 329's FY2027 request and 48% of PE 0603289D8Z'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.
3 activities in project 329
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.