What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project FA5 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.
Work directly with USSF/USAF and MGUE Inc2 GPS prime vendors to finalize prototype PGM firmware and software solutions for the Inc2 ASIC and ancillary supporting electronics. Integrate PGM MGUE Inc2 ASIC onto Circuit Card Assemblies (CCAs) and receiver form factors. Prototype JROC-directed representative PGM lead platform to accept USSF/USAF MGUE Inc2 prototype technology for Next Gen ASIC verification and validation ensuring PGM PNT-related needs and requirements are met by MGUE Inc2. Conduct component evaluations of MGUE Inc2 solutions for integration verification and validation of PGM TRD requirements. Final verification and validation planning with the Joint munition stakeholder community and USSF/ USAF. Transition of multi-billion dollar investment to PoRs for rapid use in fielded systems.
FY 2027 funding is required to complete component level evaluations of MGUE Inc2 PGM solutions. Prototyping will be executed across the ASIC, CCA, and PGM receiver to reduce risk of accepting USSF/USAF MGUE Inc2 technology to verify and validate Joint munition requirements.
FY2025: what came before
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.
Work directly with USSF and M-Code Inc2 GPS prime vendors to prototype PGM firmware and software solutions for the Inc2 ASIC and ancillary supporting electronics. Begin PGM M-Code Inc2 Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) integration onto CCAs. Continue virtually prototyping Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) -directed representative PGM Lead Platform design modifications to accept USSF M-Code Inc2 prototype technology for Next Gen ASIC verification and validation ensuring PGM PNT-related needs and requirements are met by MGUE Inc2. Begin detailed verification and validation planning with the Joint Fires stakeholder community and USSF.
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 | 18.3 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.2 |
This activity is 24% of project FA5's FY2027 request and 4.8% 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.
12 activities in project FA5
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.