What the FY2027 request buys
Verbatim from the R-2A exhibit for project CS1 of PE 0604117A. 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 Developmental Testing, continue building prototype missiles for Operational Assessment, and residual operational capability. Begin Operational Assessment.
The FY 2027 funding increase is due to the continuation of Developmental Testing, initiating the Operational Assessment, and funding both vendors for additional residual capability.
FY2025–FY2026: what came before
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 building system prototypes and begin USG Developmental Testing, including Safety and Performance testing. Prepare for Operational Assessment.
Complete subsystem and system-level technology demonstrations, development contractors perform component qualification, and long-lead item purchases to support United States Government (USG) Developmental Testing
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 | 181.4 |
| FY2026 | Enacted | 143.8 |
| FY2027 | Request | 207.4 |
This activity is 96% of project CS1's FY2027 request and 45% of PE 0604117A'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 CS1
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.