What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 643308 of PE 0604015F. 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.
Continue test aircraft build, scaling manufacturing, infrastructure and capacity across the industrial base, and execution of test and evaluation activities. This funding will keep B-21 Raider development on track in support of the program's continued transition through low-rate initial production and fielding.
FY27 funding will be a decrease of $322.082M. This decrease in funding is primarily due to the continued transition from EMD to Production.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
Continue test aircraft build, scaling manufacturing, infrastructure and capacity across the industrial base, and execution of test and evaluation activities. This funding will keep B-21 Raider development on track in support of the program's continued transition through low-rate initial production and fielding.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 2,305.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 2,083.4 |
| FY2027 | Request | 1,761.3 |
This activity is 100% of project 643308's FY2027 request and 62% of PE 0604015F'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 643308
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.