What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 63670A of PE 0603601F. 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 technology risk reduction including demonstration and flight testing for weapons concepts responsive to the future threat environment (including hypersonic and high-speed concepts), focusing on maturing and demonstrating advanced propulsion, advanced seekers, alternative navigation, and multi-mission ordnance technologies. Activities include multi-mission ordnance sled test to address diverse target sets. - Continue technology risk reduction for hypersonic and high-speed weapon concepts development within a scalable, cloud-enabled modeling and simulation ecosystem, in order to upgrade Department of War lethality tools with damage from hypersonic weapons. Activities include testing, finalizing, and delivering lethality tools for operational system. - Continue developing kinetic payloads, seeker, and fuze technology for hypersonic and high-speed applications, maturing high-speed weapon technologies to increase effectiveness across a diverse target set. Activities include mission utility analysis of high-speed systems. - Continue modeling, simulation, analysis, and digital engineering in support of air-to-ground advanced weapon technologies, maturing high-speed weapon technologies to increase effectiveness across a diverse target set. Activities include finalizing and transitioning kinematic data and models to partner and operational organizations.
FY 2027 funding increased by $21.226 million due to the transfer of the Air-to-Ground Concept Development effort and associated funding within this Program Element from Project 63670B/ Weapon Concept Development to Project 63670A/ Weapon Technology Development. However, the overall funding for the Air-to-Ground Concept Development decreased compared to FY 2026 by $0.803 million due to minor programmatic adjustments to the DAF Science and Technology portfolio.
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.
In the FY 2025 and FY 2026, the Air-to-Ground Concept Development effort and funding were reported in Program Element 0603601F/ Conventional Weapon Technology/Project 63670B/Weapon Concept Development. FY 2025 funding was $25.108 million and FY 2026 funding is $22.029 million.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 0.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 21.2 |
This activity is 16% of project 63670A's FY2027 request and 16% of PE 0603601F'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 63670A
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.