What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project DK7 of PE 0603639A. 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.
Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 funding will support continued prototyping and testing of propelling charges, combustible cases, additives, and ignition components to advance technologies and characterize performance with the down-selected Mobile Tactical Cannon (MTC) Platform.
Increase in funding in FY 2027 due to increase in contract and testing costs associated with planned propulsion component development activities.
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 FY 2026, funding will support prototyping and testing of propelling charge and ignition components to advance technology for improvement of the propellant effectiveness, cannon life, primer and charge ignition performance, system-level handling and rates-of-fire, and overall propulsion suitability and survivability.
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 | 10.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 24.7 |
This activity is 100% of project DK7's FY2027 request and 8.9% of PE 0603639A'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 DK7
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.