What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project DM5 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 define and document operational objectives based on mission analysis; continue to perform modeling and simulation to refine desired system performance characteristics; select multiple industry partner missile system concepts for further technology maturation; conduct an initial design review for each missile concept; evaluate each industry partners proposed program for achieving desired system level performance; evaluate proposed missile system concepts technology readiness levels, claimed performance versus desired system performance, and assess system level risks.
Funding increase reflects additional research for modeling and simulation and maturation of system design and the strategic realignment of resources to support evolving priorities and objectives.
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.
Will focus on mission analysis and system design; conduct operational analysis and concept definition refinement to determine performance metrics and goals for technology and component advanced development.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 94.2 |
This activity is 100% of project DM5's FY2027 request and 22% 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.
1 activity in project DM5
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.