What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 2966 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.
Complete the Precision Fire Control INP by: - Integrating the Data Link Assisted Navigation (DLAN) Multi-Function Data Link (MFDL) fire control element. - Procuring 12 Low-Cost Terminal Defense Missiles (LCTDM) and 4 Hypervelocity Projectiles (HVP) flight test units and test targets. - Conducting interceptor guidance testing with Data Link Assisted Navigation (DLAN), Low-Cost Terminal Defense Missiles (LCTDMs), and Hypervelocity Projectiles (HVPs).
The decrease in funding from FY 2026 to FY 2027 in Precision Fire Control (PFC) is due to completion of integrating Multi-Function Data Link (MFDL) fire control element and the PFC final demonstration against surrogate threats.
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.
Continue the PFC INP by working the following tasks: - Integration of multi-function data link (MFDL) 2 fire control element. - Procurement of 5 Hypervelocity Projectiles (HVP) and 20 Low-Cost Terminal Defense Missiles (LCTDM) flight test units and test targets. - Interceptor guidance testing with HVP and LCTDM. - Combat systems integration studies. - Complete combat systems integration studies. - Complete design and prototyping of Precision Fire-Control (PFC) Increment 2 fire control elements.
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 | 19.5 |
| FY2027 | Request | 15.1 |
This activity is 11% of project 2966'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.
10 activities in project 2966
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.