What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1164 of PE 0603673N. 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.
Joint Beam Control System (JBCS) - Continue Joint Beam Control System (JBCS) development of mature beam control, pointing, stabilization, propagation, aimpoint maintenance and advanced tracking. - Continue development of mature optical systems. - Continue development of mature beam conditioning and diagnostics system. - Initiate building and testing of the JBCS subassemblies for high energy laser weapon systems.
The increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is due to the initiation of efforts to build and test the JBCS subassemblies for high energy laser weapon systems.
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.
Joint Beam Control System (JBCS) - Initiate the Joint Beam Control System (JBCS) FNC by defining joint (Army/Navy) requirements and initiating the development of a standardized beam control system for high energy laser weapon systems. - Initiate development of mature beam control, pointing, stabilization, propagation, aimpoint maintenance and advanced tracking. - Initiate development of mature optical systems. - Initiate development of mature beam conditioning and diagnostics system.
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 | 10.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 15.0 |
This activity is 16% of project 1164's FY2027 request and 3.4% of PE 0603673N'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.
15 activities in project 1164
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.