What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 640141 of PE 0604003F. 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.
-Will continue to support all ABMS Thrust areas (ASE, ORT, DI, SwA, AC, DS, DIFC2) with program management A&AS and SETA support. -Will continue to support ORT prototype integration and experimentation of digital tactical edge connectivity prototypes and aid their transition to C3BM DI for further development. -Will continue to support on-going testing activities associated with Deployable and Fixed Digital Infrastructure processing nodes. -Will continue to support planning and testing CBC2/CBC2+ quarterly MVCRs -Will continue to support planning for test and demonstration activities associated with Phalanx Griffon and C3 Hybrid SATCOM. -Will support completion of testing TOC-L MR 2 kits and conclusion of formal combined Developmental and Operational Test and Evaluation to inform full prototype production decision and follow-on fielding effort determination. -Will support integration and test and evaluation activities associated with the release of DIFC2 MVCR #2.
Funding increases in FY 2027 as testing activities continue to scale in support of continued MVCR releases and hardware procurement and deployments across the Thrust Areas.
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.
-Will support all ABMS Thrust areas (ASE, ORT, DI, SwA, AC, DS, DIFC2) with program management A&AS and SETA support. -Will support ORT prototype integration and experimentation of digital tactical edge connectivity prototypes and aid their transition to C3BM DI for further development. -Will support on-going testing activities associated with Digital Infrastructure-Network and Digital Infrastructure processing nodes. -Will support planning and testing CBC2/CBC2+ quarterly MVCRs and CBC2 Operational Acceptance. -Will support planning for test and demonstration activities associated with Phalanx Griffon and C3 Hybrid SATCOM. -Will support testing with TOC-L MR 1 kits in multi-domain joint force exercises, the integration and acceptance testing of the first article MR 2 prototypes, and formal combined Developmental and Operational Test and Evaluation to inform full prototype production decision and follow-on fielding effort determination. -Will support integration and test and evaluation activities associated with the release of DIFC2 MVCR #1.
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 | 56.2 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 73.7 |
| FY2027 | Request | 105.3 |
This activity is 10% of project 640141's FY2027 request and 10% of PE 0604003F'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.
7 activities in project 640141
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.