What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project MD08 of PE 0603882C. 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.
- Execute GMD Element testing and performance analysis in support of mixed fleet operations. - Update developmental lab infrastructure incorporating future capabilities.
Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides for increased lab hardware required for modeling, simulation, integration testing, discrimination support, and lab infrastructure for mixed fleet testing.
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.
- Execute test analyses. - Update developmental lab infrastructure incorporating future capabilities. - Execute risk reduction testing and analysis.
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 | 199.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 303.4 |
This activity is 24% of project MD08's FY2027 request and 22% of PE 0603882C'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.
7 activities in project MD08
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.