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.
- Tech Refresh, Improvement, and Modernization to meet mission requirements and sustain operations.
- Increase from FY 2026 to FY 2027 is driven by requirements in the current Integrated Master Test Plan (IMTP) to fund essential technology refreshes and system upgrades for flight test ranges and infrastructure, mobile instrumentation, test communications, and data management labs. In addition, planned overhauls of test instrumentation ships, Pacific Collector and Pacific Tracker, and associated telemetry and radar systems.
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.
- Outfit and equip the new Ground Test Facility.
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 | 120.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 204.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 331.4 |
This activity is 32% of project MT04's FY2027 request and 31% 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.