What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 640860 of PE 0604005F. 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.
- Complete development and test of multi-constellation SATCOM terminals from multiple providers. - Complete development and test of compact multi-band antenna for size-constrained aircraft. - Complete SATCOM integration and test on prioritized aircraft. - Complete development of coarse navigation without reliance on GPS.
The FY 2027 request was reduced by 4.894 million due to planned ramp down and completion of program. Elements developed under this program will transition to fielding under DAF Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management (PAE C3BM) and specific platforms.
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.
- Initiate delivery and ground test of multi-constellation satellite communication (SATCOM) terminals from multiple terminal providers. - Initiate full integration of SATCOM terminals on all platforms and conduct operational experimentation on multiple platforms. - Continue development of compact antenna for size-constrained aircraft.
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 | 50.7 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 66.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 61.4 |
This activity is 100% of project 640860's FY2027 request and 100% of PE 0604005F'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 640860
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.