What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 646020 of PE 0604001F. 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 studies, analysis, and prototyping •Test bed activities •Exercise participation •Develop modeling and simulation of identified NC3 WS architecture •Integrated NC3 WS testing, validation, and certification •Direct mission support contracts in support of next generation NC3 systems and sub-systems •Rapidly respond to evolving warfighter priorities and warfighter requirements •Continue to support early development and risk reduction of emerging applicable technologies in FY2027, including: --Radio enhancements --Antenna improvements --Evaluation of alternative communication paths for NC3 --Cyber resiliency --Network communications services --Hardware enhancements --Inform evolving NC3 requirements and reduce risk through prototyping for emerging NC3 programs like Sentinel and SAOC, Tankers, B-21, MC2S, etc • Continue to support High Frequency (HF) engineering analysis and the establishment of experimental infrastructure to reduce technical risk and schedule for potential future programs of record/requirements Details can be provided at higher classification levels.
FY 2026 to FY 2027 budget increase is to fund additional advanced concept efforts: Network communications services, Cyber resiliency, Material Hardening and Alternative communication paths for NC3.
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.
•Conduct studies, analysis, and prototyping •Test bed activities •Exercise participation •Develop modeling and simulation of identified NC3 WS architecture •Integrated NC3 WS testing, validation, and certification •Direct mission support contracts in support of next generation NC3 systems and sub-systems •Rapidly respond to evolving warfighter priorities and warfighter requirements •Continue to support early development and risk reduction of emerging applicable technologies in areas such as: --Radio enhancements --Antenna improvements --Evaluation of alternative communication paths for NC3 --Cyber resiliency --Network communications services --Hardware enhancements --Inform evolving NC3 requirements and reduce risk via prototyping for emerging NC3 programs such as Sentinel and SAOC, Tankers, B-21, MC2S, etc • Continue to support High Frequency (HF) engineering analysis and standup of experimental infrastructure to reduce technical risk and schedule for potential future program of record/requirement Details can be provided at higher classification levels.
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 | 5.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 10.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 14.4 |
This activity is 100% of project 646020's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0604001F'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.
1 activity in project 646020
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 program-element page.