What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 3402 of PE 0603925N. 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.
JLWS N-150-X (Containerized) - Initiate Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) and incremental procurement of 150 kW class Containerized Laser Weapon System (LWS) - Provide programmatic and technical oversight of contract - Initiate systems engineering, ship and combat system integration requirements development - Initiate development of Ship Installation Drawings (SIDs) and identification/procurement of installation material - Establish Product Support Management (PSM) including In Service Engineering Agent (ISEA) and Software Support Activity (SSA) functions - Initiate development of operation and maintenance documentation for shipboard use JLWS N-500-0 (JBCS) - Continue system design and development based off of Future Naval Capability (FNC) & Office of Secretary of War (OSW) efforts - Initiate system level optical design and testing for Joint Beam Control System (JBCS) - Order additional long lead system level procurements in support of JBCS system design - Continue development of system level Interface Control Drawings (ICDs) and Technical Data Package (TDP) for JBCS - Continue planning for JBCS integration and system test & evaluation activities JLWS N-300-0 (Lethality/Testing) - Initiate lethality-based engineering, testing & analysis, and validation of Directed Energy (DE) modeling & simulation software
The FY 2026 to FY 2027 increase is for the development of a containerized 150 kW Joint Laser Weapon System (JLWS) for cruise missile defense; incrementally developing and providing at least 300kW of power building on existing laser scaling efforts; development of a Joint Beam Control System (JBCS) 300 kW of power building on existing laser scaling efforts; development of a Joint Beam Control System (JBCS) technology capable of supporting a 300-500kW laser weapon system, and conduct upgrades to the High Energy Laser Counter Anti-Ship Cruise Missile Project (HELCAP) testbed as appropriate to support JLWS testing. In coordination with the Services and the Missile Defense Agency, begin development of a consolidated implementation plan for all Golden Dome Directed Energy projects, leveraging synergy and common weapon architectures between these efforts where possible.
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 | 75.6 |
This activity is 95% of project 3402's FY2027 request and 80% of PE 0603925N'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.
3 activities in project 3402
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.