What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project MT04 of PE 0603914C. 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.
- The decrease from FY 2026 to FY 2027 reflects reduced OTA support services for sustainment operations, strategic planning, test planning, test execution, data analysis, test analysis, and operational assessment. The reduction of funding for contract services is undertaken in direct support of the President's executive order, which prioritizes cost efficiency, transparency, and the consolidation of services. This measure represents a deliberate workforce optimization strategy designed to streamline resources while safeguarding against adverse impacts to modernization initiatives and overall mission effectiveness.
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 | 114.9 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 106.1 |
| FY2027 | Request | 91.3 |
This activity is 8.9% of project MT04's FY2027 request and 8.6% of PE 0603914C'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 MT04
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.