What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 644044 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.
FY 2027 includes funding for the continuation of modernization studies/ technical risk reduction activities. In addition, modernization activities will be supported, which includes but is not limited to, weapons integration/certification, air vehicle provisioning for future capabilities, sensors, and payloads.
FY 2027 increased from FY 2026 by $455.248M in support of the program's increasing design scope of modernization activities that began in 2024; to include enhanced technologies, nuclear certification as well as infrastructure transitioning from baseline to modernization.
FY2026: the year under way
Prior-year accomplishments and current-year plans from the same exhibit. Context for the FY2027 plan, not a series — an activity partitions its project exactly in the request year, but can under-cover it in earlier years.
FY 2026 includes funding for the continuation of modernization studies/ technical risk reduction activities. In addition, modernization activities will be supported, which includes but is not limited to, weapon integration/certification, air vehicle provisioning for future capabilities, sensors, and payloads.
Three years, and no five-year plan
An R-2A activity publishes the prior year, the current year and the budget year. The FYDP outyears exist at project and program-element level and are deliberately absent here rather than inferred. Estimate types are colored and never summed into one figure.
| Fiscal Year | Estimate Type | Amount ($M) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | Actual | 260.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 646.2 |
| FY2027 | Request | 1,101.4 |
This activity is 100% of project 644044's FY2027 request and 38% 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 644044
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.