What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 127 of PE 0603838D8Z. 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.
(U) The program will conduct engineering feasibility studies and analysis to inform the development of system prototypes. The effort will prioritize technology solutions that demonstrate general military utility and can be rapidly integrated into form, fit, and function prototypes. Concurrently, this program will establish a strategic roadmap for maturing technologies to a TRL of 6, ensuring they are postured for successful transition into the acquisition process.
Increase in FY 2027 is due to increased investment in nuclear prototyping.
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) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2027 | Request | 90.0 |
This activity is 100% of project 127's FY2027 request and 29% of PE 0603838D8Z'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 127
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.