What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project MD11 of PE 0603884C. 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.
- Initiate development of high-fidelity Digital Wrapped Tactical Code models for AN/TPY-2 and SBX to support Missile Defense System element development and Warfighter Exercises and Training. - Procure updated hardware for high fidelity Hardware in the Loop models to meet increased performance required for advanced capabilities in SBX and AN/TPY-2. - Initiate Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) by creating initial models for radar simulations, SBX radar behavior, antenna mount, functional representation validation, and mitigating legacy document-centric systems to MBSE. - Initiate support for monthly containerized software deliveries. - Procure upgraded digital representation of UEWR assets to enable ground test and cybersecurity test activities.
Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides for: - Radar M&S development to include hardware acquisition for the Simulation Interface Units, Ground Based Radar Digitization Hardware-In-the-Loop testing representations (Qty 5), AN/TPY-2 Forward Based Mode, and SBX, enabling representation of assets in Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) ground tests - Radar digital engineering integration efforts to include validation and verification of monthly containerized software in the cloud, enabling early development testing across the BMD. - Initiation of MBSE by creating initial models for radar simulations, SBX radar behavior, antenna mount, functional representation validation, and mitigating legacy document-centric systems to MBSE.
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 | 50.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 27.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 159.3 |
This activity is 20% of project MD11's FY2027 request and 18% of PE 0603884C'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.
6 activities in project MD11
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.