What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project DAT-01 of PE 0603467E. 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 a series of Capstone Test Events with transition Stakeholders. - Complete validation of the bulk prototype process and provide Lots to transition partners.
The FY 2027 decrease reflects the shift from system testing and initial flight tests to Capstone test events with transition Stakeholders
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.
- Complete safety of flight and safe separation activity. - Perform flight test and a mission system integration test series. - Conduct necessary development and testing activities to incorporate design modification based on constraints identified from previously executed tests. - Plan a series of Capstone Test Events with transition Stakeholders.
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 | 39.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 20.0 |
This activity is 4.9% of project DAT-01's FY2027 request and 1.3% of PE 0603467E'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.
16 activities in project DAT-01
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.