What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 641020 of PE 0603851F. 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.
•Continue Experimental Flight Test (EFT3) efforts to provide ICBM launches for testing experimental guidance and mission-enabling technologies to support advancement of low-technology readiness level technology maturation. •Continue radiation-hardened advanced microelectronics to ensure availability of electronics that can provide state-of-the-art performance and survive strategic radiation environments. •Begin GNC&PNT efforts to identify ways to determine what GPS denied environments are for future ICBMs and potential threats to current GPS along with developing external sources of information other than GPS to determine position
Funding increased due to EFT 3 requirement ramp up of activity
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.
•Begin Optical communications link payload prototype which can operate to provide information at the point of relevance in denied environment and provide low probability of detection and intercept (GNC&PNT) •Continue Revolutionary Radar research for prototyping and test navigation aids. •Continue radiation-hardened advanced microelectronics to ensure availability of electronics that can provide state-of-the-art performance and survive strategic radiation environments. •Continue Experimental Flight Test (EFT3) efforts to provide ICBM launches for testing experimental guidance and mission-enabling technologies to support advancement of low-technology readiness level technology maturation. •Respond to evolving warfighter priorities and emerging requirements in support of developing ICBM weapon system capability.
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 | 26.6 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 25.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 28.4 |
This activity is 100% of project 641020's FY2027 request and 39% of PE 0603851F'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 641020
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.