What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project MD24 of PE 0603890C. 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.
Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides additional architecture design work required to drive future missile defense efforts.
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.
- Finalize and submit FA-2 COAs and costs / schedules projections supporting focused area regions within U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. - Refine FY 2025 design, development and assessment of FA-3 COAs concentrated in weapons, sensors and communication to support detect and control portion of the kill chain. - Initiate design, development, and assessment of FA-4 COAs focused in updates to all parts of the kill chain supporting U.S. European Command and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.
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 | 18.0 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 17.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 20.3 |
This activity is 7.7% of project MD24's FY2027 request and 1.4% of PE 0603890C'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.
9 activities in project MD24
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.