What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project 1036 of PE 0604028N. 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.
(U) Continued support for installation planning and execution for a TETRA mission. Supporting offload from first TETRA mission. Continuing to investigate west-coast laydown areas to support urgent fleet capability needs as more TETRA Shipsets become available. (U) TETRA will continue to develop, build, integrate, test, and create supporting documentation for a new payload. This payload capability will be based on Fleet needs. (U) TETRA will continue to leverage the ongoing Rapid Fielded Temporary Alteration (RF TEMPALT) to establish a baseline to easily integrate new payload capabilities. This baseline will be transitioned to the Submarine of Opportunity (SOO) system to allow for more rapid deployments with different payload capabilities. (U) TETRA will continue integration efforts into Submarine Warfare Federated Tactical System (SWFTS) Technical Insertion 32 (TI 32). (U) Shipset 3 will be assembled and tested on the M241 barge. Operators will be trained using the system and in a classroom setting. (U) Bootstraps continued development, integration, and implantation of Bootstrap capabilities in deployable packages/payloads.
The increase in FY 2026 from FY 2027 for continued investments in bootstrap payload, and Tetra testing for integration and operator training.
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.
(U) TETRA is planned to deploy for its first mission on board a submarine of opportunity, as well as continued support for installation planning and execution. Will begin investigation of west-coast laydown areas to support urgent fleet capability needs as more TETRA Shipsets become available. (U) TETRA will develop, build, integrate, test, and create supporting documentation for a new payload that can be easily swapped from the payload bay. (U) TETRA will leverage the ongoing Rapid Fielded Temporary Alteration (RF TEMPALT) to establish a baseline to easily integrate new payload capabilities. This baseline will begin to transition to the Submarine of Opportunity (SOO) system to allow for more rapid deployments with different payload capabilities. (U) TETRA will begin integration efforts into Submarine Warfare Federated Tactical System (SWFTS). Integration efforts will be geared towards Technical Insertion 32 (TI 320). (U) Shipset 2 will be assembled and tested on the M241 barge. Operators will be trained using the system and in a classroom setting. Transition to the Submarine of Opportunity (SOO) system will begin and west coast lay-down areas/maintenance facilities will be planned. TETRA Shipsets 1 & 2 will be ready to support additional missions. (U) BootStrap continued development, integration, and implantation of Bootstrap capabilities in deployable packages/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 | 5.3 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 0.0 |
| FY2027 | Request | 13.8 |
This activity is 100% of project 1036's FY2027 request and 56% of PE 0604028N'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.
2 activities in project 1036
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.