What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3220 of PE 0603595N. 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.
- Continue planning activities for the first of class Demonstration of Shakedown Operations (DASO) Test and Evaluation event required to meet the COLUMBIA Program Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) requirements. Efforts include detailed DASO test planning development, continued test documentation development, mission operations advanced coordination, and continued procurement/production of required Flight Test Bodies.
- Increase reflects transition to detailed test planning activities required to support the DASO test event.
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.
Commence planning activities for the first of class Demonstration of Shakedown Availability (DASO) Test and Evaluation event required to meet the COLUMBIA Program Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) requirements. Efforts include test planning documentation development and initial procurement of required Flight Test Bodies.
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 | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 9.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 15.4 |
This activity is 6.0% of project 3220's FY2027 request and 4.6% of PE 0603595N'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.
4 activities in project 3220
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.