What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project EN4 of PE 0603884BP. 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.
Optimize manufacturing activities and integration of software with hardware assets. The initiative will provide multiple echelons with real-time understanding of the adversarial threat information left of launch, support and enable Commanders to adopting protective measures, optimize detection and characterization efforts, and ensure seamless coordination across the Joint Force and with coalition partners.
Increased investment enables manufacturing optimization and software integration for existing UAS efforts.
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 | 14.2 |
This activity is 9.1% of project EN4's FY2027 request and 3.6% of PE 0603884BP'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 EN4
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.