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.
- Conduct specialized architecture studies and deliver architecture concepts to provide global reach against advanced and emerging threats. - Conduct system-of-systems engineering employing modernized model-based systems engineering techniques to: -- Provide signatures and other threat data to support System-level requirements definition for new advanced threats. -- Define technical, performance, and interface requirements to develop and integrate new architectural components with the existing Missile Defense System. -- Develop assessments and analysis to predict expected performance and evaluate performance observed in testing and Real World Events. - Develop and integrate layered, multi-domain Homeland and Theater-based simulation framework architectures to support early performance predictions supporting acquisition decisions; enable virtual and live testing; and support engineering, production, and sustainment efforts across the components' lifecycle.
Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 provides architecture, engineering, and M&S services required to develop, test, assess, and deliver to the Warfighter advanced missile defense capabilities with global reach.
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.
- No funding is requested in FY 2026.
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 | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 76.0 |
This activity is 29% of project MD24's FY2027 request and 5.2% 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.