What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project CZ8 of PE 0603464A. 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 continue to optimize GMLRS dispense mechanism, submunition design, simulations, sensors, and warhead technologies by performing multiple component and system-level demonstrations to include three separation demonstrations delivered by a GMLRS, one flight demonstration with integration of full seeker package and datalinks, and warhead arena, penetration, and fuzing demonstrations. Submunition communication and collaborative autonomy algorithms will also be refined in preparation for future system-level demonstrations of collaborative capabilities.
Funding increase reflects acceleration and risk reduction for Sensor Fuzed Weapons.
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.
Will continue to optimize both dispense system and submunition designs; advance seeker/sensor technology characterization and perform multiple component-level demonstrations; develop program-specific targeting and submunition collaboration algorithms; and conduct a payload dispense demonstration to validate dispense system performance ;matures and finalizes rocket and launch pod configuration to support high volume fires.
Optimize the SFW payload munition design and conduct a Design Review; mature critical dispense mechanism and submunition component hardware and software, and perform subsystem testing to support integration of the SFW payload into a GMLRS form-factor; develop rocket components and launch pod configuration to support high volume, 30 x rockets, load out and conducts design review.
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 | 35.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 64.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 98.3 |
This activity is 44% of project CZ8's FY2027 request and 23% of PE 0603464A'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 CZ8
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.